Philosophical Relativity - Unger, Peter
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In this short volume (first published in 1984), Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been given to traditional problems of philosophy. He casts doubt on the generally unquestioned view that fundamental questions pertaining to meaning and existence have direct solutions, arguing that by their very nature they remain ultimately unanswerable. He suggests that the answers to these questions must be viewed in terms of a general philosophical and semantic relativity, proposing that truth cannot be arrived at in absolute sense but rather with relative degrees of precision. Written…mehr

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In this short volume (first published in 1984), Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been given to traditional problems of philosophy. He casts doubt on the generally unquestioned view that fundamental questions pertaining to meaning and existence have direct solutions, arguing that by their very nature they remain ultimately unanswerable. He suggests that the answers to these questions must be viewed in terms of a general philosophical and semantic relativity, proposing that truth cannot be arrived at in absolute sense but rather with relative degrees of precision. Written with unusual clarity, "Philosophical Relativity", is provocative, highly readable and ambitious in scope.
In this short but meaty book, Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been given to central problems in philosophy. As Unger hypothesizes, many of these problems are unanswerable, including the problems of knowledge and scepticism, the problems of free will, and problems of causation and explanation. In each case, he argues, we arrive at one answer only relative to an assumption about the meaning of key terms, terms like "know" and like "cause," even while we arrive at an opposite answer relative to quite different assumptions, but equally arbitrary assumptions, about what the key terms mean.
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Autorenporträt
Peter Unger is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Ignorance (OUP 1975, 2002), Identity, Consciousness, and Value (OUP 1990), and Living High and Letting Die (1996)