The Application of the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights [PDF]
Jurists have expressed various propositions about the true nature of Margin of Appreciation Doctrine. Some believe that although application of the doctrine allows for exercise of human rights with having local cultural diversities in consideration ...
Hossein Sharifi Tarazkoohi, Javad Mobini
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Disagreement Lost and Found [PDF]
According to content-relativist theories of moral language, different speakers use the same moral sentences to say different things. Content-relativism faces a well-known problem of lost disagreement.
Finlay, Stephen
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Relativism and Tolerance Revisited [PDF]
This paper reviews arguments concerning the relation between relativism and tolerance, both whether tolerance entails relativism, and whether relativism entails tolerance. Two new arguments are offered to support the contention that there is no necessary
Ressler, Mark
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Disagreement, Cognitive Command, and the Indexicality of Moral Truth
Moral Relativism can be considered an attractive alternative to realism because relativists can make good sense of cultural and societal disagreements by seeing them as faultless.
Reichardt Bastian
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Absoluteness of Truth and the Lvov–Warsaw School (Twardowski, Kotarbiński, Leśniewski, Łukasiewicz, Tarski, Kokoszyńska) [PDF]
According to Twardowski, truth is if it is independent of temporal coordinates. This understanding was one of the main arguments against truth-relativism. Kotarbiński rejected this view as far the issue concerns sentences about the future, but he did not
Woleński, Jan
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"Putnamizacja absolutnie wszystkiego" i jej epistemologiczne reperkusje („Putnamisation of Absolutely Everything” and its Epistemological Repercussions) [PDF]
In the article inspired by Putnam’s thesis of „skolemisation of absolutely everything” (which is so called theory-modelling argument about semantic anti-realism) I try to describe Hilary Putnam’s style of philosophy, especially his argumentation in ...
Józef Dębowski
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Perspectival Plurality, Relativism, and Multiple Indexing [PDF]
In this paper I focus on a recently discussed phenomenon illustrated by sentences containing predicates of taste: the phenomenon of " perspectival plurality " , whereby sentences containing two or more predicates of taste have readings according to which
Zeman, Dan
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A brief reference article on cultural relativism, forthcoming in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ...
Tilley, John J.
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A Critical Study of Relativism: A Feature of Postmodernism
In the Western countries, the concept of postmodernism is not new and novel. It is an extension of human inquiry in social issues and problems, new shapes of expressions and new trends of analyses and sensibility.
Ahmad Nadeem, Muhammad Akram Rana
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Regulating Gamete Donation in the U.S.: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
This article explores the practice of gamete donation in the U.S. having in mind the larger question of what do we as a society owe children born as a result (donor-conceived children). Do recipient-parents have a duty to tell their donor-conceived child
Maya Sabatello
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