Teaching Philosophy

Volume 9, Issue 3, September 1986

Student Relativism

In this paper I offer an analysis of, and suggest some methods for dealing with, a quite particular and peculiar problem in teaching philosophy. It is, perhaps, not a problem essential to the discipline or to its teaching, but it is nevertheless one of the most serious, pervasive, and frustrating problems confronting most philosophy teachers today. I speak of the problem of student relativism-or, SR for short.