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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780190867218
- Book Title
- On Truth
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.1 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Topic
- Social, Epistemology, General
- Item Weight
- 7.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190867213
ISBN-13
9780190867218
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239637213
Product Key Features
Book Title
On Truth
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Social, Epistemology, General
Genre
Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-051643
Reviews
"Mr. Blackburn displays a rare combination of erudite precision and an ability to make complex ideas clear in unfussy prose." --Wall Street Journal, Julian Baggini "Excellent, concise ... essential reading for scholars and novices alike." --Library Journal "On Truth is a fun, short primer on the concept of truth and arguments around it." --Shelf Awareness "Classic Simon. Well written, engaging, erudite, and accurate. This guide to truth is just what we need in the age of 'fake news'" --Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University, author of Think Again: How to Reason and Argue, "Mr. Blackburn displays a rare combination of erudite precision and an ability to make complex ideas clear in unfussy prose." --Wall Street Journal, Julian Baggini "Excellent, concise ... essential reading for scholars and novices alike." --Library Journal "On Truth is a fun, short primer on the concept of truth and arguments around it." --Shelf Awareness"Classic Simon. Well written, engaging, erudite, and accurate. This guide to truth is just what we need in the age of 'fake news'" --Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University, author of Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
121
Table Of Content
Preface Part I: The Classic Approaches 1. Correspondence 2. Coherence 3. Pragmatism 4. Deflationism 5. Tarski and The Semantic Theory of truth 6. Summary of Part I Part II: Varieties of enquiry 7. Truths of Taste; Truth in Art 8. Truth in Ethics 9. Reason 10. Religion and Truth 11. Interpretations Notes Further investigations Index
Synopsis
Truth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why is the truth important? Who decides what the truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal truth, or is truth simply a matter of perspective, of linguistic or cultural vantage point? In this concise book Simon Blackburn provides an accessible explanation of what truth is and how we might think about it. The first half of the book details several main approaches to how we should think about, and decide, what is true. These are philosophical theories of truth such as the correspondence theory, the coherence theory, deflationism, and others. He then examines how those approaches relate to truth in several contentious domains: art, ethics, reasoning, religion, and the interpretation of texts. Blackburn's overall message is that truth is often best thought of not as a product or an end point that is 'finally' achieved, but--as the American pragmatist thinkers thought of it--as an ongoing process of inquiry. The result is an accessible and tour through some of the deepest and thorniest questions philosophy has ever tackled, Simon Blackburn is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was until recently the Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His publications span popular and academic moral philosophy and include Think, Being Good, and The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. His most recent book was Mirror, Mirror: The Uses of Self Love (2014). Book jacket., This concise book by the eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn provides an accessible explanation of what truth is and how we might think about it. Blackburn's overall message is that truth is often best thought of not as a product or an end point that is 'finally' achieved, but as an ongoing process of inquiry.
LC Classification Number
BD171.B53 2018
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