TY - JOUR T1 - Relativism and Alethic Functionalism JF - Organon F Y1 - 2007 A1 - Zeman, Dan AB - The essay is an attempt to offer a version of conceptual relativism that escapes Donald Davidson’s (widely thought) decisive criticisms of the notion of “conceptual scheme”. Two variants of relativism are distinguished, a weaker and a stronger one, and a clear formulation of what a strong version amounts to is put forward. The concrete proposal involves accepting a version of alethic pluralism. After discussing alethic pluralism in general, and after exploring both strong and weak versions of it, a suitable version is presented: alethic functionalism. The final part offers an illustration of how embracing alethic functionalism may help the relativist. IS - 1 VL - 14 SP - 53-71 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2007/1/53-71.pdf U2 - Papers U3 - 5371 TI - Relativism and Alethic Functionalism ER -