The paper's called True for Me, but not for you, moral relativism and moral truth.

This is just the outline, so if you're feeling lost, you should be somewhere in one of these sections.

But it should be very easy to follow.

If it isn't, that's my fault.

So first, just a very brief introduction.

This talk is about relativism with a special focus on moral

relativism. First, I'm going to explain what relativism is. Second, I'm going to make some remarks

concerning what people are relativists about. Third, I'll say a fair number of things about moral

relativism. Fourth, I'll say a fair number of things about moral relativism.

Fourth, I'll say some things about a kind of relativism that isn't moral relativism, but instead a different kind.

And the reason I'm including this material is not just that it's interesting, but also because I think that at least in our culture, this other kind

of relativism is often driven by what you might call a moral concern, so it's also related.

In fifth, I'm going to just make a little bit of remarks about the concept of interfering

with other people's decisions or something like that.

That's something that keeps coming up, so I'll have to say something about at the end,

and then I'll just say that I'm done.

All right, so introductory remarks about relativism.

Relativism, roughly speaking, is the idea that there isn't an absolute truth that's the same for everyone,

but instead something is true for one person but not necessarily for another.

So for example, someone might say, maybe it's true for you that sex should be reserved for

marriage, but it's not true for me. Or for another example, someone might say, maybe it's true for you

that there is no God, but for me there is a God. Now, right away, we have to be careful not to get tripped up by language. Can you hear me in

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