Realism and Relativism, Volume 12

This volume gathers papers by many of the best-known philosophers now at work on issues of realism and relativism across the field of philosophy. The result is representative of the best cutting-edge work in the area. Includes work both on the ontology and epistemology of the normative as well as on more general metaphysical and epistemological issues of relativism and realism. Essays include discussions of relativism and the first-person perspective, underdetermination and realism, and mathematical realism and epistemic relativism, plus many other points of reflection.

Ernest Sosa is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University and Rutgers University. He is author of Knowledge in Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and of papers in metaphysics and epistemology.

Enrique Villanueva is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is author of papers and books in philosophy of mind and history of philosophy, and editor of Philosophical Issues from 1992 to 2000.

I. Metaphysics and Logic

Realism and Relativism

1

(25)

Akeel Bilgrami

Underdetermination and Realism

26

(25)

Michael Devitt

Quantifier Variance and Realism

51

(23)

Eli Hirsch

Conceptual Relativity and Metaphysical Realism

74

(23)

Terry Horgan

Mark Timmons

Response-dependence without Tears

97

(21)

Frank Jackson

Philip Pettit

Is There a True Metaphysics of Material Objects?

118

(28)

Alan Sidelle

Knowledge of the World

146

(30)

Galen Strawson

The Number of Things

176

(21)

Peter Van Inwagen

On Logical Relativity

197

(23)

Achille C. Varzi

Abstract Objects: A Case Study

220

(21)

Stephen Yablo

II. Metaethics

Meta-Ethics and Normative Commitment

241

(23)

James Dreier

Earning the Right to Realism or Relativism in Ethics

264

(22)

Carol Rovane

Moral Realism and Indeterminacy

286

(19)

Stephen Schiffer

Moral Relativity and Intuitionism

305

(24)

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Exploring the Implications of the Dispositional Theory of Value

329

(19)

Michael Smith

Contributors

348

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Realism and Relativism, Volume 12

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