| Partial Truths and Our Common Future: A Perspectival Theory of Truth and Value Contributor(s): Crosby, Donald A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438471335 ISBN-13: 9781438471334 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship |
| Dewey: 121 |
| LCCN: 2017053069 |
| Series: Suny American Philosophy and Cultural Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how partial truths are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binary--those between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil--and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life. |