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Essays on Relativism

Two-thousand-and-one to two-thousand-and-twenty-one

Prof Crispin Wright

17 August 2023

ISBN: 9780192845993

272 pages
Hardback
234x156mm

Price: £60.00

The idea that truth might be relative has recently been taken seriously again in philosophy, after years of ill repute. Crispin Wright has been a leading critic of the new relativism: this volume charts the development of his thinking on the topic over two decades.

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The idea that truth might be relative has recently been taken seriously again in philosophy, after years of ill repute. Crispin Wright has been a leading critic of the new relativism: this volume charts the development of his thinking on the topic over two decades.

  • Key writings on relativism by a leading figure in the debate
  • Comprises a battery of powerful criticisms of the recent relativistic tendency in philosophy of language
  • A substantial introduction gives a valuable exegetical overview of the main themes of the book

About the Author(s)

Prof Crispin Wright, Global Professor of Philosophy, New York University

Crispin Wright did his Ph.D. at Cambridge before being elected Prize Fellow (1969) at All Souls College Oxford where he spent the first nine years of his career. He was appointed to the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at St Andrews in 1978 - at that time the youngest ever appointment to an established chair in philosophy in the UK. At St Andrews, his achievements included appointment (1999) to the first Wardlaw University Professorship and the foundation (1998) and Directorship for its first decade of the research centre, Arché. He is currently Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. Previously, he has taught at Oxford, Columbia, Michigan, Princeton, St Andrews, and at Aberdeen from 2009-15 where he held the Regius Chair of Logic and directed the Northern Institute of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

    1:On Being in a Quandary: Relativism, Vagueness, Logical Revisionism (2001)
    2:Intuitionism, Realism, Relativism and Rhubarb (2006)
    3:New Age Relativism and Epistemic Possibility: The Question of Evidence (2007)
    4:Relativism about Truth itself: Haphazard thoughts about the Very Idea (2008)
    5:Fear of Relativism (2008)
    6:Trumping Assessments and the Aristotelian future (2009) (Co-authored with Sebastiano Moruzzi)
    7:Assessment-Sensitivity: The Manifestation Challenge (2016)
    8:Talking with Vultures (2017) (Co-authored with Filippo Ferrari)
    9:The Variability of 'knows': An Opinionated Overview (2017)
    10:Alethic Pluralism, Deflationism, and Faultless Disagreement (2021)

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