I Preliminary remarks What I am calling New Age Relativism is usually proposed as a thesis about the truth-conditions of utterances, where an utterance is an actual historic voicing or inscription of a sentence of a certain type. Roughly, it is the view that, for certain discourses, whether an utterance is true depends not just on the context of its making—when, where, to whom, by whom, in what...

Moral relativism, as I understand it, is the claim that there is not a single objectively true morality but only many different moralities, just as there is not a single true language but only many different languages. Different people may have different moralities as reflected in the way they act and the ways they react to the actions of others and there is no objective way to show that one of...

Abstract According to contextualism, the extension of claims personal taste is dependent on context utterance. truth relativism, their depends assessment. On this view, when preferences a speaker change, so does value previously uttered claim, and might be required retract it. Both views make strong empirical assumptions, which are here put test in three experiments with over 740 participants. ...

When studying natural language, one inevitably needs to explain how linguistic signs and constructions map onto semantic concepts. Among concepts, perceptual categories form a special class in the sense that an insight into how they are acquired will have an important impact on theories of linguistic relativism. Linguistic relativism, also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, suggests an interp...

discussion of the many faces of relativism occupies a highly prominent place in the epistemological literature. protagoras in ancient greece and nelson goodman in the modern period are two most notable proponent of relativism. in the present article, i discuss and explain relativistic approaches of this two important relativist. i will first briefly define and review some faces of relativism. t...

In his paper “A Consistent Relativism” (Mind, 106, pp. 33–52), Steven D. Hales proposes a “logic of relativism” (p. 33) with the help of which he wishes to “illuminate the self-refutation charge” (ibid.) against relativism, and which he hopes will “provide a framework in which relativists can consistently promote their. . . views” (pp. 33– 34). Hales purports to show that relativism is indeed s...

Online peer assessment has been advocated by numerous contemporary educators. This study interviewed forty students who had experienced an online peer assessment activity for learning. Each of these students was asked to complete a research proposal in an educational method course for peer assessment. Using the online peer assessment system, the students, who performed the roles of both authors...

Many marketers contend that recent developments in the philosophy of science imply that objectivity in marketing research is an illusion, a chimera, or impossible. Five arguments are customarily put forth that supposedly demonstrate the impossibility of objectivity: (1) linguistic relativism, (2) paradigm incommensurability, (3) theories are underdetermined by facts, (4) perception is theory-la...

This analysis comments on Bernstein's lack of clear understanding of subjectivity, based on his book, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis. Bernstein limits his interpretation of subjectivity to thinkers such as Gadamer and Habermas. The authors analyze the ideas of classic scholars such as Edmund Husserl and Friedrich Nietzsche. Husserl put forward his notion of...