relativism

The concepts of relativism and pluralism are related and often confused.

Robert Nozick: "Who wants relativism?" in //Invariances//. we can question everything, but not all at once... (compare to Harvey Seigel's //Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism)//

Stephen Pinker in //The Language Instinct//: "I hate relativism..."

But we must distinguish between different types of relativism — or relativity, for that matter Einstein (and Ainsetain [sp?] in The Dispossessed...) relative status and positional goods (Heath)

"Science Wars" and the Sokal Hoax (learned of from Nancy Fraser: her description of the attitudes revealed... civility...). Science Wars in Le Guin scholarship...