Truth Monism Without Teleology

Some say the swamping problem confronts all who believe that true belief is the sole fundamental epistemic value (“T‐Monism”, to use Duncan Pritchard's term). This, I say, is mistaken. The problem only confronts T‐Monists if they grant two teleological claims: (i) that all derived epistemic value is instrumental , and (ii) that it is the state of believing truly rather than the standard of truth in belief that is fundamentally epistemically valuable. T‐Monists should reject (i) and (ii), and appeal to a non‐teleological form of value derivation I call Fitting Response Derivation that obviates swamping. Since, alas, simple reliabilists can't apply this model to knowledge, the problem remains for them, and is local.