John Gordon MacFarlane

Originator of the idea that truth may be relative not only to context of utterance (time, place, etc.), but also to the context of assessment. This resulted in a new, and intelligible, version of relativism, which he applied to such classical philosophical problems as judgments of taste, the metaphysics of the future, claims of knowledge, and modal and normative statements. He also produced original work on the nature of logic. Winner, Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize 2003; delivered the Context and Content Lectures, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2010.