Philosophical Relativity Book

	Preface
I	The Hypothesis of Philosophical Relativity	3
1	Problems without Solutions	3
2	Philosophical Relativity and Semantic Relativity	5
3	Contextualism and Invariantism	6
4	Alternative Psychologies	11
5	Events in Real Time and in Real Brains: Alternative Interpretations	13
6	Two Levels for Relativity: Words and Objects	14
7	Indeterminacy of Translation and Holistic Explanation	15
II	Aspects of Semantic Relativity	21
1	Contrasting Groups of Expressions	21
2	Statements, Beliefs, and Truth-values	25
3	Logic and Meaning	27
4	Sortalism	30
5	Extreme Semantic Approaches	33
6	The Relativity and the Rationality of Contextualism	35
7	The Appeal of Invariantism	37
8	General Sentences, Conversational Interests, and Contexts of Utterance	40
9	The Compatible Vagueness of Semantic and Pragmatic Terms	43
III	A Relativistic Approach to Some Philosophical Problems	46
1	A Problem of Knowledge	46
2	A Problem of Power and of Freedom	54
3	A Problem of Causation	58
4	A Problem of Explanation	60
5	Categorical Problems and Conditional Problems	62
IV	On the Status of Ostensible Intuitions	65
1	The Objection from Semantic Intuitions	66
2	Semantic Intuitions Concerning Problematic Words	67
3	The Objection Reformulated	69
4	Two Invariantist Replies	70
5	A Direct Relativist Reply	74
6	How Commonsense Beliefs Account for Appearances of Intuitions: An Explanatory Sketch	75
V	Two Approaches to Ostensible Intuitions	79
1	The Prevalent Approach to Responses and the Causal Theory of Reference	80
2	Some Problems for the Causal Theory and for the Prevalent Approach	83
3	Some Advantages of a Psychological Approach to Examples	90
4	Perceived Threats to Our System of Beliefs	95
5	Egocentric Attitudes as Determinants of Response	97
6	Ostensible Intuitions, Commonsense Beliefs, and Semantic Relativity	102
VI	The Status of Philosophical Problems	105
1	An Objection from Particular Expressions	106
2	An Objection from a Particular Language	110
3	An Objection from Overgeneralization	112
4	An Objection from Unnaturalness	113
5	Prospects for Philosophy	115
	Notes	121
	Index	131