A Companion to Relativism

Steven D. Hales

Wiley, May 11, 2020 - Philosophy - 674 pages

A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics.

• Features original contributions from many of the leading figures working on various aspects of relativism
• Presents a substantial, broad range of current thinking about relativism
• Addresses relativism from many of the major subfields of philosophy, including philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics

About the author

Steven D. Hales is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy and co-author of Nietzsche's Perspectivism, as well as numerous articles on relativism. His most recent book is The Myth of Luck: Philosophy, Fate, and Fortune. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge, Turin, Edinburgh, and London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Companion to Relativism; Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Editor: Steven D. Hales
• Publisher: Wiley, 2020
• ISBN: 1119698162, 9781119698166
• Length: 674 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Metaphysics