Relativism Refuted : A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Incoherence Argument and the Notion of Relative Truth....Pages 3-31 Frameworks, Conceptual Schemes, and “Framework Relativism”....Pages 32-44 Front Matter....Pages 45-45 Kuhn and Relativism: Is He or Isn’t He?....Pages 47-69 The Kuhnians....Pages 70-92 The Kuhn-Inspired New Philosophy of Science....Pages 93-118 The Un-Kuhnians: Relativism via the Problem-Solving Theory of Rationality....Pages 119-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Goodmanian Relativism....Pages 145-159 Relativism and Rationality: Towards an “Absolutist” Epistemology....Pages 160-169 Back Matter....Pages 170-217