Truth And Pluralism

Author : Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen,Cory D. Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195387469

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Truth and Pluralism by Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen,Cory D. Wright Pdf

The editors and contributors to this volume challenge the very basic assumption that truth has a uniform nature ranging across the boundaries of human knowledge by putting forth the idea of alethic pluralism — that there is more than one way of being true. This volume presents new essays by some of the world's leading philosophers to explore this new view and its implications for the philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic.

Author : Michael P. Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262263467

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Truth in Context by Michael P. Lynch Pdf

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 1999 Academic debates about pluralism and truth have become increasingly polarized in recent years. One side embraces extreme relativism, deeming any talk of objective truth as philosophically naïve. The opposition, frequently arguing that any sort of relativism leads to nihilism, insists on an objective notion of truth according to which there is only one true story of the world. Both sides agree that there is no middle path. In Truth in Context, Michael Lynch argues that there is a middle path, one where metaphysical pluralism is consistent with a robust realism about truth. Drawing on the work of Hilary Putnam, W.V.O. Quine, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, Lynch develops an original version of metaphysical pluralism, which he calls relativistic Kantianism. He argues that one can take facts and propositions as relative without implying that our ordinary concept of truth is a relative, epistemic, or "soft" concept. The truths may be relative, but our concept of truth need not be.

Author : Michael Glanzberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191502651

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The Oxford Handbook of Truth by Michael Glanzberg Pdf

Truth is one of the central concepts in philosophy, and has been a perennial subject of study. Michael Glanzberg has brought together 36 leading experts from around the world to produce the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They consider how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present day, surveying major debates about truth during the emergence of analytic philosophy. They offer critical assessments of the standard theories of truth, including the coherence, correspondence, identity, and pragmatist theories. They explore the role of truth in metaphysics, with lively discussion of truthmakers, proposition, determinacy, objectivity, deflationism, fictionalism, relativism, and pluralism. Finally the handbook explores broader applications of truth in philosophy, including ethics, science, and mathematics, and reviews formal work on truth and its application to semantic paradox. This Oxford Handbook will be an invaluable resource across all areas of philosophy.

Author : Peter Jonkers,Oliver J. Wiertz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429671135

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Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality by Peter Jonkers,Oliver J. Wiertz Pdf

This book deals with the intellectual aspects of having diverse religious expressions in proximity and the socio-political consequences. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on this complex subject, cross-fertilizing work on religious plurality with truth-claims from theologians as well as philosophers from the continental and analytic traditions. The book includes three major parts. Part 1 explores the ideas around religious diversity and truth; Part 2 draws out the epistemic import of religious diversity; and Part 3 concludes the volume by examining the practical and social aspects of religious diversity. Bringing a transdisciplinary perspective to a topic that remains at the forefront of conversation around the religious life of the world, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Theology and the Philosophy of Religion.

Author : Jeremy Wyatt,Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen,Nathan Kellen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319983462

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Pluralisms in Truth and Logic by Jeremy Wyatt,Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen,Nathan Kellen Pdf

This edited volume brings together 18 state-of-the art essays on pluralism about truth and logic. Parts I and II are dedicated to respectively truth pluralism and logical pluralism, and Part III to their interconnections. Some contributors challenge pluralism, arguing that the nature of truth or logic is uniform. The majority of contributors, however, defend pluralism, articulate novel versions of the view, or contribute to fundamental debates internal to the pluralist camp. The volume will be of interest to truth theorists and philosophers of logic, as well as philosophers interested in relativism, contextualism, metaphysics, philosophy of language, semantics, paradox, epistemology, or normativity.

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780020641407

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Truth in Religion by Mortimer J. Adler Pdf

Continuing his exploration of the philosophical questions and doubts plaguing civilization today, Dr. Mortimer J. Adler explores where the truth lies in religion and the effects of diversity among religions. Truth in Religion is the product of Dr. Mortimer J. Adler’s search for a resolution to the age-old conflict between logic and faith. Aiming to discover where the truth lies among the plurality of the world’s organized religion, Dr. Adler explores the philosophy of religion and its true meanings among civilization as dictated by the principle of the unity of truth.

Author : Douglas Owain Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198758693

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The Metaphysics of Truth by Douglas Owain Edwards Pdf

What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? Douglas Edwards tackles these questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. He argues that in some domains language responds to the world, whereas in others language generates the world.

Author : Filippo Ferrari
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793622686

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Truth and Norms by Filippo Ferrari Pdf

Truth and Norms: Normative Alethic Pluralism and Evaluative Disagreements engages three philosophical topics and the relationships among them. Filippo Ferrari first contributes to the debate on the nature and normative significance of disagreement, especially in relation to evaluative judgements such as judgements about basic taste, refined aesthetics, and moral matters. Second, he addresses the issue of epistemic normativity, focusing in particular on the normative function(s) that truth exerts on judgements. Third, he contributes to the debate on truth—more specifically, which account of the nature of truth best accommodates the norms relating judgements and truth. This book develops and defends a novel pluralistic picture of the normativity of truth: normative alethic pluralism (NAP). At the core of NAP is the idea that truth exerts different normative functions in relation to different areas of inquiry. Ferrari argues that this picture of the normativity of truth offers the best explanation of the variable normative significance that disagreement exhibits in relation to different subject matters—from a rather shallow normative impact in the case of disagreement about taste, to a normatively more substantive significance in relation to moral judgements. Last, Ferrari defends the view that NAP does not require a commitment to truth pluralism, since it is fully compatible with a somewhat refined version of minimalism about truth.

Author : Harold A. Netland
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1573830828

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Dissonant Voices by Harold A. Netland Pdf

Author : Michael P. Lynch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191615764

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Truth as One and Many by Michael P. Lynch Pdf

What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all; the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In this concise and clearly written book, Lynch argues that we should reject both these extremes and hold that truth is a functional property. To understand truth we must understand what it does, its function in our cognitive economy. Once we understand that, we'll see that this function can be performed in more than one way. And that in turn opens the door to an appealing pluralism: beliefs about the concrete physical world needn't be true in the same way as our thoughts about matters — like morality — where the human stain is deepest.

Author : Schmidt-Leukel, Perry
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336951

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Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology by Schmidt-Leukel, Perry Pdf

Author : David Archard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521567503

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Philosophy and Pluralism by David Archard Pdf

Introduction - DAVID ARCHARD

Author : Lauren J. Apfel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199600625

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The Advent of Pluralism by Lauren J. Apfel Pdf

In this study of the relationship between a modern philosophical idea and an ancient historical moment, Lauren Apfel explores how the notion of pluralism, made famous by Isaiah Berlin, features in the Classical Greek world and, more specifically, in the thought of three of its most prominent figures: Protagoras, Herodotus, and Sophocles.

Author : Steven Horst
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262333634

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Cognitive Pluralism by Steven Horst Pdf

An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications. Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the basic units of knowledge and understanding are concepts, beliefs, and argumentative inferences. In Cognitive Pluralism, Steven Horst proposes that another sort of unit—a mental model of a content domain—is the fundamental unit of understanding. He argues that understanding comes not in word-sized concepts, sentence-sized beliefs, or argument-sized reasoning but in the form of idealized models and in domain-sized chunks. He argues further that this idea of “cognitive pluralism”—the claim that we understand the world through many such models of a variety of content domains—sheds light on a number of problems in philosophy. Horst first presents the “standard view” of cognitive architecture assumed in mainstream epistemology, semantics, truth theory, and theory of reasoning. He then explains the notion of a mental model as an internal surrogate that mirrors features of its target domain, and puts it in the context of ideas in psychology, philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and theoretical cognitive science. Finally, he argues that the cognitive pluralist view not only helps to explain puzzling disunities of knowledge but also raises doubts about the feasibility of attempts to “unify” the sciences; presents a model-based account of intuitive judgments; and contends that cognitive pluralism favors a reliabilist epistemology and a “molecularist” semantics. Horst suggests that cognitive pluralism allows us to view rival epistemological and semantic theories not as direct competitors but as complementary accounts, each an idealized model of different dimensions of evaluation.

Author : Jeremy Barris
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823262151

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Sometimes Always True by Jeremy Barris Pdf

Sometimes Always True aims to resolve three connected problems. First, we need an undogmatic pluralist standpoint in political theory, metaphysics, and epistemology. But genuine pluralism suffers from the contradiction that making room for fundamental differences in outlook means making room for outlooks that exclude pluralism. Second, philosophy involves reflecting on the world and meaning as a whole, yet this means adopting a vantage point in some way outside of meaning. Third, our lived experience of the sense of our lives similarly undermines its own sense, as it involves having a vantage point in some way wholly outside ourselves. In detailed engagement with, among others, Davidson, Rorty, Heidegger, Foucault, Wilde, and gender and sexuality theory, the book argues that these contradictions are so thoroughgoing that, like the liar’s paradox, they cancel the bases of their own meaning. Consequently, it argues, they resolve themselves and do so in a way that produces a vantage point on these issues that is not dogmatically circular because it is, workably, both within and outside these issues’ sense. The solution to a genuinely undogmatic pluralism, then, is to enter into these contradictions and the process of their self-resolution.