tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331292467452860795.post5108033158571777197..comments2024-03-27T04:05:15.220-07:00Comments on The Sooty Empiric: True For YouLast Positivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677699402952932577noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331292467452860795.post-87169925490504639042016-10-09T08:35:26.245-07:002016-10-09T08:35:26.245-07:00Thanks Natalie!
I think for Wiredu the texts I w...Thanks Natalie! <br /><br />I think for Wiredu the texts I would recommend are: (1) Truth as Opinion, (2) Truth and an African Language, and (3) Truth: A Dialogue. Of these I'd say that (1) states his view most comprehensively, (2) has the most interestingly novel argumentation, and (3) is the best read. It may therefore tell you something about my general philosophical personality that I recommend (3) most of all! I can send you (or any interested party) pdfs of any and all of these.<br /><br />(Also: true facts, I have literally only just now got the joke in ``Shifting Sands''.)Last Positivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11677699402952932577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331292467452860795.post-24896269903529561262016-10-09T08:16:25.739-07:002016-10-09T08:16:25.739-07:00Some women philosophers who work on relativism (bu...Some women philosophers who work on relativism (but aren't necessarily relativists):<br /><br />Maria Baghrahmian<br />I think she considers herself a pluralist rather than a relativist, but she works on both.<br /><br />Michele Moody-Adams<br />I haven't read any of her work but my colleague Robin recommends her book Fieldwork in Familiar Places, where I'm told she criticises the anthropological evidence for moral relativism.<br /><br />Helen Longino<br />I'm not sure if she embraces the label 'relativism' at any point - in what I've read she calls her view 'contextualist empiricism' - but it seems like relativism to me.<br /><br />Vicki Spencer<br />Actually I don't know if she works on relativism as a rule, but she at least deserves an honourable mention because she works on humility and tolerance and pluralism and all of the other cool things. She visited our project recently and the book she's working on now sounds really, really cool and probably right up your alley, but I can't find anything about it online just now and am wary about trying to reconstruct how she described it... But look out for it I guess? I'm pretty sure you'd dig it.<br /><br />Delia Graff Fara<br />Jason Stanley has argued that her view in Shifting Sands is a kind of relativism, so maybe her?<br /><br />What would you recommend if I wanted to read Wiredu on relativism?Natalie Alana Ashtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10189130958954641361noreply@blogger.com