ABSTRACT
Objectivism about truth goes together with what philosophers might term 'epistemic modesty'. Even though such objectivism about truth does not directly license scepticism, one might think that the root cause of scepticism lies in a strong version of this thesis. Take a strong version of objectivism to hold that it is always possible that what undergraduates believe about the world could be false. The motivation for anti-realism about truth thus does not obviously come from any inherent ability it might have to help philosopers resolve the sceptical problem. One motivation for anti-realism comes from the thought that a realist conception of truth is in some sense an idle cog in inquiry. To say that truth is objective is to say that merely thinking that the world is a certain way does not entail that it is that way. The chapter ends with considering a view about truth which is radically non-objective.
