ABSTRACT

Recent relativists, despite their differences, share a preference for perspectival contents, i.e. contents that do not comply with the traditional constraint requiring propositional contents to have absolute truth-values. Misgivings about perspectival contents are probably the number one reason why relativism has faced vehement opposition. This chapter discusses three of the main roles that propositional contents are usually expected to play: as objects of belief, as objects of compositional semantic values and as objects of assertion. It shows in each case that perspectival contents are suitable to play the part.