What's the Use of Truth?
What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the American pragmatist Richard Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Pascal Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality.Rorty doubts that the notion of truth can be of any practical use and points to the preconceptions that lie behind truth in both the intellectual and social spheres. Engel prefers a realist conception, defending the releva…
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Weitere Autoren: Engel, Pascal / McCuaig, William (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-14014-0
- EAN: 9780231140140
- Produktnummer: 19414716
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H18.0 cm x B12.1 cm x D1.3 cm 174 g
- Gewicht: 174
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Richard Rorty and Pascal Engel. Translated by William McCuaig
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