Defusing epistemic relativism

Duncan Pritchard

pp. 397-412

in: Relative truth, Synthese 166 (2), 2009.

Abstract

This paper explores the question of whether there is an interesting form of specifically epistemic relativism available, a position which can lend support to claims of a broadly relativistic nature but which is not committed to relativism about truth. It is argued that the most plausible rendering of such a view turns out not to be the radical thesis that it is often represented as being.