A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 1999Academic debates about                  pluralism and truth have become increasingly polarized in recent years. One side                  embraces extreme relativism, deeming any talk of objective truth as philosophically                  na?ve. The opposition, frequently arguing that any sort of relativism leads to                  nihilism, insists on an objective notion of truth according to which there is only                  one true story of the world. Both sides agree that there is no middle path.In Truth                  in Context, Michael Lynch argues that there is a middle path, one where metaphysical                  pluralism is consistent with a robust realism about truth. Drawing on the work of                  Hilary Putnam, W. V. O. Quine, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, Lynch develops                  an original version of metaphysical pluralism, which he calls relativistic                  Kantianism. He argues that one can take facts and propositions as relative without                  implying that our ordinary concept of truth is a relative, epistemic, or "soft"                  concept. The truths may be relative, but our concept of truth need not be.

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