Forms of Life and Following Rules: A Wittgensteinian Defence of Relativism

by Donald K. Barry

This study defends a version of epistemological relativism, taking as its point of departure some key arguments from the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein - especially those concerning rule following and forms of life.
An opposition is established between the dominant form of epistemological realism - that which relies upon 'truth-conditions'- and theories in which knowledge and truth are fundamentally dependent upon context. It is argued in Part...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004105409
• ISBN13: 9789004105409
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.7"