RT Journal Article
T1 Equal Validity or Nonneutrality? A defense of relativism
A1 Pérez Navarro, Eduardo
K1 Relativism
K1 Equal validity
K1 Nonneutrality
AB In this paper, I oppose Baghramian and Coliva’s characterization of relativism insofar as it attributes to this view a commitment with Equal Validity, or the idea that the many radically different ways of seeing the world are equally valid. I argue that Equal Validity conflicts with Nonneutrality, which is another of the theses that Baghramian and Coliva use to characterize relativism, and which can be summarized as the idea that there is no privileged point of view. I argue that, once we choose Nonneutrality over Equal Validity, we can make sense of the notion of faultless disagreement, which Baghramian and Coliva reject. This goes against Baghramian and Coliva’s argument that, since there is no such thing as faultless disagreement, there is no motivation for relativism either.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 0003-2638
YR 2022
FD 2022-10-17
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32501
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32501
LA eng
NO Pérez-Navarro, E. (2022). Equal Validity or Nonneutrality? A defense of relativism. Analysis, 82(3), 492-498
NO This work has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science andInnovation under a Juan de la Cierva-Formación fellowship (FJC2020-045045-I) and the research project “Disagreement in Attitudes: Normativity,Affective Polarization and Disagreement” (PID2019-109764RB-I00), bythe Spanish Ministry of Universities under a Margarita Salas fellowship, bythe Regional Government of Andalusia under the research projects “PublicDisagreements, Affective Polarization and Immigration in Andalusia”(B-HUM-459-UGR18) and “The Inferential Identification of Propositions:A Reconsideration of Classical Dichotomies in Metaphysics, Semantics andPragmatics” (P18-FR-2907), by the University of Granada under the excellence unit FiloLab-UGR (UCE.PPP2017.04), and by the BBVA Foundationunder the research project “Evaluations in Disguise: A Dynamic ExpressivistAccount of Propaganda” (DINEXPROP).
DS Minerva
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