ABSTRACT
This chapter critically discusses the relationship between political disagreements and political relativism, roughly, the idea that both parties to (at least some) political disagreements are right relative to their own perspective. Two key strands of argument that take a substantive stand on this relationship are considered. The first – which is the primary focus of the chapter – reasons from political disagreement to political relativism through premises about epistemic circularity. The second kind of argument diagnoses some political disagreements as ‘faultless’ on the basis of semantic considerations. As we’ll see, considerations in favour of accepting or rejecting either variety of political relativism do not carry over as considerations for accepting or rejecting the other, and so these forms of political relativism – despite some superficial similarities – do not stand or fall together.
