Talking with Vultures
Talking with Vultures
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与秃鹫交谈
作者:
Ferrari F
At the time of its first publication, relativism was proclaimed by the publisher’s advertisement for Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne’s book to be ‘currently the hottest topic in philosophy’. Maybe that was commercial license but there is no denying that the debates provoked by the reinvention of relativism as a thesis not of speculative metaphysics but of descriptive semantic theory1 have been intense and have attracted much attention. Relativism, as understood in these debates, is the claim that, for at least certain distinguished regions of discourse—in the recent literature, the relativistic case has been argued for discourses concerning each of epistemic ‘mights’ and ‘coulds’, knowledge, taste, indicative conditionals, probability statements, and future contingents2—we obtain the best theoretical characterisation of our actual linguistic practice by allowing that the truth-value of an assertion
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影响因子:
1.1
作者:
C. Wright
通讯作者:
C. Wright
影响因子:
1.3
作者:
Carleigh Baker
通讯作者:
Carleigh Baker
影响因子:
0.9
作者:
A. Egan
通讯作者:
A. Egan
DOI:
10.1163/18756735-90000772
发表时间:
2002
期刊:
Grazer Philosophische Studien
影响因子:
--
作者:
M. Slors;S. Walter
通讯作者:
S. Walter
影响因子:
1.1
作者:
Peter Lasersohn
通讯作者:
Peter Lasersohn