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SUMMARY:Conference on the Coherence of Relativism
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LOCATION:Poppelsdorfer Allee 28\, Bonn\, Germany\, 53115 
DESCRIPTION:<p>Philosophy&rsquo\;s preoccupation with relativism dates back at least to Plato.&nbsp\; Despite the view&rsquo\;s long life\, it is not usually endorsed\, or even very carefully developed\, by philosophers.&nbsp\; A primary concern with relativism is its coherence\, whether the view can be formulated in a way that holds together\, both logically and in practice. &nbsp\;Formally\, this concern includes whether relativism is self-refuting\, or whether the view commits some other type of logical fallacy (like self-exemption.)&nbsp\; Practically\, the concern extends to whether the very act of endorsing relativism transcends the sort of constraints that define the view (for example\, by asserting tolerance as a universal value\, or by describing another framework that is supposed to be somehow inaccessible/inevaluable from our own.)&nbsp\; It also involves the worry that relativism does not allow us to oppose practices (like genocide) that we believe to be clearly wrong.</p>\n<p>Despite such concerns\, relativism has enjoyed popularity as a methodological\, and often also theoretical\, framework in many other disciplines\, such as literary theory\, history\, anthropology and sociology.&nbsp\; Over the last 100 years\, developments in mathematics and physics\, such as the discovery of non-Euclidian geometries and the observer dependence of relativity theory and of quantum theory\, have encouraged some to reconsider relativism.&nbsp\; New developments in formal semantics\, by John MacFarlane and others\, have also brought relativism back into prominence.&nbsp\; Perhaps even more importantly\, relativism is a view that we confront in our daily lives\, as the forces of globalization bring people with very different practices and beliefs into frequent and direct contact with each other.</p>\n<p>This conference gathers a wide range of philosophers representing a variety of viewpoints\, including those who are opposed to\, sympathetic to and ambivalent about relativism\, to develop a fruitful conversation about the coherence of relativism\, both at a formal level and in a more social context.&nbsp\; It aims to understand with greater sophistication the possibilities\, variations and limitations of a view that has long been on the philosophical horizon but is perhaps now more relevant than ever.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Michael Forster;CN=Alyssa Luboff;CN=Dorothee Schmitt:
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