Moral relativism is an attractive position, but also one that it is difficult to formulate. In this paper, we propose an alternative way of formulating moral relativism that locates the relativity of morality in the property that makes moral claims true. Such an approach, we believe, has significant advantages over other possible ways of formulating moral relativism. We conclude by considering ...

Inspired by Bas van Fraassen’s Stance Empiricism, Anjan Chakravartty has developed a pluralistic account of what he calls epistemic stances towards scientific ontology. In this paper, I examine whether Chakravartty’s stance pluralism can exclude that licence pseudo-scientific practices like those found in Scientology. argue it cannot. is therefore prone to form debilitating relativism. Conseque...

Relativism is one of the most tenacious theories about truth, with a pedigree as old as philosophy itself. Nearly as ancient is the chief criticism of relativism, namely the charge that the theory is self-refuting. This paper develops a logic of relativism that (1) illuminates the classic self-refutation charge and shows how to escape it; (2) makes rigorous the ideas of truth as relative and tr...

From Relative Truth to Finean Non-Factualism Alexander Jackson Abstract: This paper compares two ‘relativist’ theories about deliciousness: truth-relativism, and Kit Fine’s non-factualism about a subject-matter. Contemporary truth-relativism is presented as a linguistic thesis; its metaphysical underpinning is often neglected. I distinguish three views about the obtaining of worldly states of a...

The renowned British philosopher Timothy Williamson talks about his philosophical views and main lines of research. is a metaphysical realist in broad sense. Fir him there are true or false answers to questions all aspects reality. Classical logic universal theory. Knowledge-first epistemology an alternative the traditional belief-first epistemology. former takes concept knowledge as basic conc...

Abstract Doctrines of the atonement have tended either to elevate status one biblical metaphor or gather together various metaphors into a unified concept chorus equal metaphors. The purpose this article is shed light on how function, using by way reference contrasting interpretations Charles Hodge and Joel Green, who tend towards opposing theories language based naïve realism idealism respecti...

The paper contrasts two domains of school education, natural science and citizenship education (as a paradigm of “hard” and “soft” subjects), with respect to their epistemological and ethical foundations. A sharp contrast between their associated world-views within the school community is accentuated at the outset. The epistemological shortcomings inherent in both are subsequently explored, and...

Social constructivists argue that what we call “nature” is far less universal and extrahuman than generally assumed. Yet this argument has been vigorously attacked by some natural scientists and other scholars due to what they perceive as its dangerous flirtation with relativism. I introduce this debate by reference to a recent controversy over the concept of wilderness, an important icon of na...

Critical realist thought has theorised convincingly that epistemic relativism is constellationally embedded in ontological realism which turn necessitates judgemental rationality. In social science, rationality involves acting upon plausible decisions about competing points of view. However, the tools for doing this are, as yet, under-articulated. This paper addresses absence by articulating tr...