Objectivity, relativism, and truth

Acknowledgments Introduction: antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism Part I. Solidarity or Objectivity?: 1. Science as solidarity 2. Is natural science a natural kind? 3. Pragmatism without method 4. Texts and lumps 5. Inquiry as recontextualization: an anti-dualist account of interpretation Part II. Non-Reductive Physicalism: 5. Pragmatism, Davidson and truth 6. Representation, social practice, and truth 7. Unfamiliar noises: Hesse and Davidson on metaphor PART III. The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy: 8. Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism 9. On ethnocentrism: a reply to Clifford Geertz 10. Cosmopolitanism without emancipation: a response to Jean-Francois Lyotard Index of names.