according to plantinga’s reformed epistemology, as perceptual beliefs, religious beliefs are properly basic, and therefore need no additional justification. but as it has been said frequently, this idea may lead to relativism. in this paper, first, we argue that not only its relativistic aspect allows for religious extremism, but also it could be used to justify that kind of extremism. then, re...

In a series of recent papers, John MacFarlane (2003, 2005a, 2005b) has formulated a version of truth-relativism, and argued for its application in some cases—future contingents, knowledge attributions and epistemic modals among them. Mark Richard (2004) also defends a version of relativism, which he applies to vagueness-inducing features of the semantics of gradable adjectives; Richard thinks t...

This is a critical review of Michael Peters' book, Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem Rationality, in which I focus on following assumptions order to problematize them: Wittgenstein's supposed relativism anti-foundationalism; his status as leading representative analytic philosophy; absence mention Peter’s book publication Wittgenstein’s spelling dictionary 1926, after period he became pri...

Abstract Although moral relativists often appeal to cases of apparent disagreement between members different communities motivate their view, accounting for these exchanges as evincing genuine disagreements constitutes a challenge the coherence relativism. While many acknowledge this problem, attempts solve it so far have been wanting. In response, either give up claim that there can be or end ...

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Many prominent arguments for epistemic relativism take their departure from the observation that a certain kind of symmetry is present in particular empirical cases. In this paper, we seek to attain further clarity about at issue, and sort which such can reasonably be taken give rise. The need an investigation made apparent, believe, by fact anti-relativist as advanced Boghossian his influentia...