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possible for an anthropologist in his or her fieldwork to be a descriptive relativist about some things that typically concern the philosopher (e.g., ethical…

aren't absolute descriptions. Descriptive relativists do not necessarily adopt meta-ethical relativism. Moreover, not all meta-ethical relativists adopt…

views: There is no reason why the relativist should be paralyzed, as critics have often asserted. But a relativist will acknowledge that the criticism…

generality relativists) argue that attempting to speak absolutely generally generates paradoxes such as Russell's or Grelling's, that absolute generality…

relativist. The universalist side claims that the biology of all human beings is all the same, so the development of color terminology has absolute universal…

controversy may be appropriate insofar as "relativists" often complain about not being able to decode the "absolute" way of telling the time, resulting in…

uniform translation relative to absolute space. However, some "relativists", even at the time of Newton, felt that absolute space was a defect of the formulation…

fixed background, which Einstein describes as "the fixed stars". Modern relativists see the imprints of Mach's principle in the initial-value problem. Essentially…

and aesthetic perspectivism. Philosophers who have been influential in relativist thinking include David Hume, particularly his "radical scepticism" as…

scholars never formally advanced any such hypothesis. A strong version of relativist theory was developed from the late 1920s by the German linguist Leo Weisgerber…

of some particular individual. Most forms of ethical subjectivism are relativist, but there are notable forms that are universalist: Ideal observer theory…

innovations involves a strong dedication to relativism, Latour argues. The relativist researcher "learns the actors' language," records what they say about…

differential geometer and a relativist too. In fact, in the year 1929, he commented on the geometric basis for Einstein’s absolute parallelism theory in a…

dissent from his theories. In the book, Morris argues that Kuhn was a relativist and a philosophical idealist, contrasting his interpretation of Kuhn's…

dismiss all results to the contrary for many years. However, a minority of relativists continued to contend that black holes were physical objects, and by the…

with relativists because they have noticed the influence of cultural variations on rational arguments. In other words, the anthropologist or relativist overemphasizes…

against the Cartesian anxiety and the quest for absolutes, and the best way to reach concrete, yet non-relativist, communal solutions to our public concerns…

cautious, rigorous, and contextualized interpretation of information; or relativist, because it rejects notions of universal, fundamental and immutable interpretations…

materialism and determinism, the permanent flux of living matter, a relativist and pragmatic morality, and a defence of libertinism. In prison he drafted…

concept of a Counter-Enlightenment movement that he characterised as relativist, anti-rationalist, vitalist and organic, Darrin M. McMahon, "The Counter-Enlightenment…

judgements about what justifies what. But in effect this is what the epistemic relativist is recommending. Woolgar and Pawluch argue that constructionists tend…