Book Review
 Kusch, Martin. Relativism in the Philosophy of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 86 pp. ISBN: 9781108969611, $ 20.00

We provide a deflationarily acceptable account of assertion in truth-relativistic domains. First, we state what we take relativism and deflationism to be. Second, we clarify the problem of assertion in relativistic domains by singling out the features that make assertion within those domains problematic. Then, we tackle the problem directly by generalizing a standard deflationary account of the...

Few philosophers have been tempted to be relativists about absolutely everything—although, we are told, there have been some notable exceptions (Protagoras). Many philosophers, however, have been tempted to be relativists about specific domains of discourse, especially about those domains that have a normative character. Gilbert Harman, for example, has defended a relativistic view of morality,...

We live an age of cultural relativism that asks how universal moral obligation can be justified. Immanuel Kant took up this challenge. His arguments can be reconstructed in a way that makes sense today.

Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues deflationism about entails the denial of If sound, Horwich’s argument entail relativism is incompatible any conception our ordinary predicate according which there some sort equivalence between a ground-language claim p and corresponding...

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Abstract According to contextualism, the extension of claims personal taste is dependent on context utterance. truth relativism, their depends assessment. On this view, when preferences a speaker change, so does value previously uttered claim, and might be required retract it. Both views make strong empirical assumptions, which are here put test in three experiments with over 740 participants. ...