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The author presents fictional dialogues between four former classmates who hold significantly different views about the meanings of truth, goodness, and beauty and our ability to define them without a frame of reference. As they travel in India, a place with unfamiliar concepts …
An exploration of the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of the West, with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics.
John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis.
How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, or are they four-dimensional spacetime 'worms'? Balashov shows how the theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism and in so doing illuminates a wide ran…
"Dìscussions of persistence have tended to presume a prerelativistic conception of space and time, but it has become increasingly clear that this just won't do. Persistence and Spacetime is a wonderful example of how metaphysics and physics can combine forces to teach us the nat…
"This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism. The essays in the volume are organized around three distinct philosophical approaches to this topic: 1) foundational questions concerning deep disagreement, …
