Lambert Zuidervaart

Social Domains of Truth

Science, Politics, Art, and Religion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Truth is in trouble. In response, this book presents a new conception of truth. It recognizes that prominent philosophers have questioned whether the idea of truth is important. Yet there are good reasons to regard truth as a substantive and socially significant idea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781032378039
• ISBN-10: 1032378034
• Artikelnr.: 69945300

Autorenporträt

Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies and at the University of Toronto. He is the author of eleven books, including Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School (MIT Press, 2017), Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture (Cambridge UP, 2011), and Social Philosophy after Adorno (Cambridge UP, 2007). He has contributed to The Routledge Handbook of the Frankfurt School (2018), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2015), and journals like the European Journal of Philosophy, Telos, and Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Truth Is Not a Minted Coin 2. Propositional Truth: Facts
and Propositions 3. Accurate Insight and Inferential Validity 4. Alethic
Pluralism 5. Propositional Truth and Discursive Justification 6. Truth as a
Whole and Authentication 7. Truth and Science 8. Truth and Politics 9.
Truth in Art and Religion 10. Philosophy, Truth, and Wisdom