Relativism: a contemporary anthology

Introduction / Michael Krausz

Part I: Orienting relativism. Mapping relativisms / Michael Krausz ; A brief history of relativism / Maria Baghramian

Part II. Relativism, truth, and knowledge. Subjective, objective, and conceptual relativisms / Maurice Mandelbaum ; "Just the facts, ma'am!" / Nelson Goodman ; Relativisms in philosophy of science / Nancy Cartwright ; The truth about relativism / Joseph Margolis ; Making sense of relative truth / John Macfarlane ; On the very idea of a conceptual scheme / Donald Davidson ; Truth and convention: on Davidson's refutation of conceptual relativism / Hilary Putnam ; Conceptual schemes / Simon Blackburn ; Relativizing the facts / Paul A. Boghossian ; Targets of anti-relativist arguments / Harvey Siegel ; Realism and relativism / Akeel Bilgrami

Part III. Moral relativism, objectivity, and reasons. Moral relativism defended / Gilbert Harman ; The truth in relativism / Bernard Williams ; Pluralism and ambivalence / David B. Wong ; The relativity of fact and the objectivity of value / Catherine Z. Elgin ; Senses of moral relativity / David Wiggins ; Ethical relativism and the problem of incoherence / David Lyons ; Understanding alien morals / Gopal Sreenivasan ; Value: realism and objectivity / Thomas Nagel ; Intuitionism, realism, relativism, and rhubarb / Crispin Wright ; Moral relativism and moral realism / Russ Schafer-Landau

IV. Relativism, culture, and understanding. Anti anti-relativism / Clifford Geertz ; Solidarity or objectivity? / Richard Rorty ; Relativism, power, and philosophy / Alasdair Macintyre ; Internal criticism and Indian rationalist traditions / Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen ; Phenomenological rationality and the overcoming of relativism / Jitendra N. Mohanty ; Understanding and ethnocentricity / Charles Taylor ; Relativism and cross-cultural understanding / Kwame Anthony Appiah ; Relativism, persons, and practices / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty ; One what? Relativism and poststructuralism / David Couzens Hoy ; Must a feminist be a relativist after all? / Lorraine Code.