Rationality and relativism

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Cambridge: MIT Press (1982)
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The contributors represent the complete spectrum of positions between a relativism that challenges the very concept of a single world and the idea that there are ascertainable, objective universals.

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BD221.R37 1982

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0262580616   0631131264   026208130X   9780262580618
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Introduction»: 3-12.M. Hollis & S. Lukes
Relativism, rationalism and the sociology of knowledge.Barry Barnes & David Bloor
Language, truth and reason.  (pages 48--66)Ian Hacking
The social destruction of reality.  (pages 67--86)Martin Hollis
Rationality.  (pages 87--105)Charles Taylor
Rationality.  (pages 99--100)Martin Hollis & B. Wilson
Relativism and the Possibility of Interpretation.  (pages 106--122)William Newton-Smith
Belief, bias, and ideology.  (pages 123--148)Jon Elster
Apparently irrational beliefs.  (pages 149--180)Dan Sperber
Relativism and universals.  (pages 181--200)Ernest Gellner
Tradition and Modernity Revisited.  (pages 201–260)Robin Horton
Relativism in its place.  (pages 261--305)Steven Lukes
Rationality and relativism.Martin Hollis & Steven Lukes (eds.)

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