Steven D. Hales 
A Companion to Relativism [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I Characterizing Relativism 9
1 Global Relativism and Self-Refutation 11
Max Kölbel
2 Relativism Requires Alternatives, Not Disagreement or Relative
Truth 31
Carol Rovane
3 Three Kinds of Relativism 53
Paul Boghossian
4 Varieties of Relativism and the Reach of Reasons 70
Michael Krausz
Part II Truth and Language 85
5 Truth Relativism and Truth Pluralism 87
Michael P. Lynch
6 The Many Relativisms: Index, Context, and Beyond 102
Dan López de Sa
7 Variation in Intuitions about Reference and Ontological
Disagreements 118
Edouard Machery
8 Centered Worlds and the Content of Perception 137
Berit Brogaard
9 Conceptual Relativism 159
Kenneth A. Taylor
10 The Limits of Relativism in the Late Wittgenstein 179
Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison
Part III Epistemic Relativism 199
11 Epistemological Relativism: Arguments Pro and Con 201
Harvey Siegel
12 Relativism About Epistemic Modals 219
Andy Egan
13 Relativism and Confi rmation Theory 242
Igor Douven
14 Epistemic Relativism, Epistemic Incommensurability, and
Wittgensteinian Epistemology 266
Duncan Pritchard
15 Relativism and Contextualism 286
Patrick Rysiew
Part IV Moral Relativism 307
16 Relativism in Contemporary Liberal Political Philosophy
309
Graham M. Long
17 Secularism, Liberalism, and Relativism 326
Akeel Bilgrami
18 Moral Relativism and Moral Psychology 346
Christian B. Miller
19 Bare Bones Moral Realism and the Objections from Relativism
368
Mark Balaguer
20 Virtue Ethics and Moral Relativism 391
Christopher W. Gowans
21 Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group
Disagreement 411
David B. Wong
Part V Relativism in the Philosophy of Science 431
22 Relativism and the Sociology of Scientifi c Knowledge
433
David Bloor
23 Incommensurability and Theory Change 456
Howard Sankey
24 Thomas Kuhn’s Relativistic Legacy 475
Alexander Bird
25 Anti-Realism and Relativism 489
Christopher Norris
Part VI Logical, Mathematical, and Ontological Relativism
509
26 Horror Contradictionis 511
Johan Van Benthem
27 Varieties of Pluralism and Relativism for Logic 526
Stewart Shapiro
28 Relativism in Set Theory and Mathematics 553
Otávio Bueno
29 Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument 569
Maximilian de Gaynesford
30 Quine’s Ontological Relativity 588
Gary L. Hardcastle
31 Carving Up a Reality in Which There are no Joints 604
Crawford L. Elder
Index 621

Steven D. Hales is Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy (2006) and the co-author of Nietzsche’s Perspectivism (2000). He was recently Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School for Advanced Study, University of London, and is the author of numerous articles on relativism in journals such as Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Synthese.