The Trivial Argument for Epistemic Value Pluralism, or, How I Learned to Stop Caring about Truth
Relativism offers a nifty way of accommodating most of our intuitions about epistemic modals, predicates of personal taste, colour expressions, future contingents, and conditionals. But in spite of its manifest merits relativism is squarely at odds with epistemic value monism: the view that truth is the highest epistemic goal. The argument from relativism to epistemic value pluralism may be called the trivial argument for epistemic value pluralism. In this chapter the argument is formulated and three possible ways to refute it are examined. It is then argued that two of these are unsuccessful and the third, which involves denying that there are genuinely relative truths, is defended.
Keywords: contextualism, epistemic goal, epistemic value, epistemic value pluralism, relativism, personal taste, trivial arguement
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