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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One - How to Formulate the Doctrine of Relativism -- 1. The Prevailing Consensus View: Disagreement, Relative Truth, and Antirealism -- 2. Relativism as Multimundialism -- Part Two - Evaluating the Doctrine of Relativism -- 3. Relativism concerning Natural Facts -- 4. Relativism concerning Moral Values -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Main description: Some philosophers regard relativism as neither true nor false but simply incoherent. Carol Rovane demonstrates that the way to defend relativism is not by establishing its truth but by clarifying its content. Some forms of interpersonal engagement are true in themselves but closed off to belief from those who hold irreducibly incompatible truths.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Nature and Value -- 2. The Human Shadow -- 3. The Anthropocene and Global Warming: A Brief Update -- 4. The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene -- 5. The Anthropocene Dating Problem: Disciplinary Misalignments, Paradigm Shifts, and the Possibility for New Foundations in Science -- 6. Disciplinary Variations on the Anthropocene: Temporality and Epistemic Authority. Response to Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni -- 7. Value and Alienation: A Revisionist Essay on Our Political Ideals -- 8. Equality and Liberty: Beyond a Boundary. Response to Akeel Bilgrami -- 9. Experimenting with Other People -- 10. The Green Growth Path to Climate Stabilization -- 11. All Too Human: Orienting Environmental Law in a Remade World -- 12. Life Sustains Life 1: Value, Social and Ecological -- 13. Life Sustains Life 2: The Ways of Reengagement with the Living Earth -- 14. The Value of Sustainability and the Sustainability of Value -- 15. Varieties of Agency: Comment on Anthony Laden -- 16. Nonhuman Agency and Human Normativity -- 17. Natural Piety and Human Responsibility -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: The Nature of Naturalism -- 1 The Charm of Naturalism -- 2 The Miracle of Monism -- 3 The Content and Appeal of "Naturalism" -- 4 Naturalism Without Representationalism -- II MIND -- 5 Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind -- 6 Naturalism and Skepticism -- 7 Intentionality and Norms -- 8 Could There Be a Science of Rationality? -- III AGENCY -- 9 Agency and Alienation -- 10 Is Freedom Really a Mystery? -- 11 Subjectivity and the Agential Perspective -- IV ETHICAL AND AESTHETIC NORMATIVITY -- 12 A Nonnaturalist Account of Personal Identity -- 13 Against Naturalism in Ethics -- 14 Postscript (2002) to "The Investigations' Everyday Aesthetics of Itself" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index