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Relativism and Reality: A Contemporary Introduction Hardcover – September 22, 1999

by Robert Kirk (Author)

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Our thoughts about the world are clearly influenced by such things as point of view, temperament, past experience and culture. However, some thinkers go much further and argue that everything that exists depends on us, arguing that 'even reality is relative'. Can we accept such a claim in the face of events such as floods and other natural disasters or events seemingly beyond our control? 'Realists' argue that reality is independent of out thinking. 'Relativists' disagree, arguing that what there is depends on our point of view. Which is right?
Robert Kirk provides a crystal clear account of this debate from the Greek philosophers to Wittgenstein and Rorty. Along the way, he unpacks some of the more complicated issues surrounding ideas of objectivity, subjectivity, pragmatism and realism essential for those beginning any study of philosphy.

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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge (September 22, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415208173
ISBN-13: 978-0415208178
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
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'Robert Kirk's short, readable, and engaging book provides an excellent introduction to the considerations that motivate relativism and the reasons they are not convincing' - Philosophical Review

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Robert Kirk is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.

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An excellent overview of the concepts of reality and relativ

By Ebby Elahi on January 23, 2000

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A pleasure to read ... Robert Kirk appears to surmount the difficulty of communicating difficult philosophical concepts to the average reader.

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Relativism without Plato or Heraclitus?

By BlueMist on March 16, 2014

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If you are looking for a connection to relativity in physics, you won't find it here. All change, especially movement, is objectively, measurably, relative to time and space. It is this form of objective relativism that underlies Galileo's and Einstein's relativity.

Unfortunately, not to fault the author, current philosophical understanding of relativism does not yet extend to either the 'Secret Doctrine' of Plato's Theaetetus (156ff) or Heraclitus's ideas of dynamic interaction in a world of constant change.

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