| Truth: Volume 4 Contributor(s): Engel, Pascal (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773524622 ISBN-13: 9780773524620 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology - Philosophy | Logic |
| Dewey: 121 |
| Series: Central Problems of Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.84" W x 8.2" (0.47 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Engel argues that, although the minimalist conception of truth is basically right, it does not follow that truth can be eliminated from our philosophical thinking, as is claimed by some radical deflationists. In particular, he shows that some deflationist views have a definitively relativist and postmodernist ring and should be rejected. Even if a metaphysically substantive theory of truth has little chance to succeed, he argues, truth plays a central role as a norm or guiding value of our rational inquiries and practices in the philosophy of knowledge and in ethics. |
