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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 April 2014
- ISBN 9780199682751
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages362 pages
- Size 240x162x30 mm
- Weight 696 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
John MacFarlane explores how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative. He provides new, satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis, including what we mean when we talk about what is tasty, what we know, what will happen, what might be the case, and what we ought to do.
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John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis. Although there is a substantial philosophical literature on relativism about truth, going back to Plato's Theaetetus, this literature (both pro and con) has tended to focus on refutations of the doctrine, or refutations of these refutations, at the expense of saying clearly what the doctrine is. In contrast, Assessment Sensitivity begins with a clear account of what it is to be a relativist about truth, and uses this view to give satisfying accounts of what we mean when we talk about what is tasty, what we know, what will happen, what might be the case, and what we ought to do. The book seeks to provide a richer framework for the description of linguistic practices than standard truth-conditional semantics affords: one that allows not just standard contextual sensitivity (sensitivity to features of the context in which an expression is used), but assessment sensitivity (sensitivity to features of the context from which a use of an expression is assessed).
The Context and Content series is a forum for outstanding original research at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science. The general editor is François Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris).
... a masterful book that is both more original and more carefully crafted than the average contemporary philosophy book.
Table of Contents:
A Taste of Relativism
I: Foundations
The Standard Objections
Assessment Sensitivity
Propositions
Making Sense of Relative Truth
Disagreement
II: APPLICATIONS
Tasty
Knows
Tomorrow
Might
Ought
The Rationality of Relativism
References
Index
