Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue: A sense of the issue
Introduction
Part One: The Defense and Application of Relativism
1. The nature and strategies of relativism
2. Historicism and universalism
3. Objectivism and relativism
4. Rationality and realism
5. Realism and relativism
Part Two: Foundations and the recovery of pragmatism
6. The legitimation of realism
7. Pragmatism without foundations
8. A sense of rapprochement between Analytic and Continental European philosophy
9. Cognitive issues in the realist-idealist dispute
10. Skepticism, foundationalism, and pragmatism
11. Scientific realism as a transcendental issue
Epilogue
Index

About the Author

Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His most recent publications include Re-inventing Pragmatism (2002), The Unraveling fo Scientism (2003), Moral Philosophy after 9/11 (2004) and Introduction to Philosophical Problems (2006).

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