RELATIVISM AND ALETHIC FUNCTIONALISM

• Authors: Zeman D.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The essay is an attempt to offer a version of the conceptual relativism that escapes Donald Davidson's (widely thought) decisive criticisms of the notion of 'conceptual scheme'. Two variants of relativism are distinguished, a weaker and a stronger one. The concrete proposal involves accepting a version of 'alethic' pluralism. After discussing 'alethic' pluralism in general, and after exploring both strong and weak versions of it, a suitable version is presented: 'alethic' functionalism. The final part offers an illustration of how embracing 'alethic' functionalism may help the relativist.

Keywords

EN

ALETHIC FUNCTIONALISM; ALETHIC PLURALISM; CONCEPTUAL SCHEME; RELATIVISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53-71
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zeman D.

• D. Zeman, Central European University, 9 Nador ut., H-1051, Budapest, Hungary

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA02244704