HOW NOT TO CRITICIZE RELATIVISM: A STORY OF AN ASHTRAY THROWN AT AN OPPONENT'S HEAD
Oksana Ivanovna Tselishcheva
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Akademy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: релятивизм, логика, метафизика, Э. Моррис, Т. Кун, С. Крипке, Р. Рорти, relativism, logic, metaphysic, E. Morris, T. Kuhn, S. Kripke, R. Rorty
Abstract
The article criticizes the position of E. Morris set forth in his recent book, The Ashtray , in which, referring to the episode of his studies with T. Kuhn, he strongly criticized the so-called relativism. It is shown that Morris, when unreasonably relying on S. Kripke's logical metaphysics, which is irrelevant to relativism, misses essential details related to R. Rorty's relativism.
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