Defusing epistemic relativism

Synthese 166 (2) (2008)
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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.

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reprint Pritchard, Duncan (2009) "Defusing epistemic relativism". Synthese 166(2):397-412

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