What's the Use of Truth? - Softcover

Rorty, Richard; Engel, Pascal; McCuaig, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231140150 ISBN 13: 9780231140157

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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. What's the Use of Truth? is a rare opportunity to experience each side of this impassioned debate clearly and concisely. It is a subject that has profound implications not only for philosophical inquiry but also for the future study of all aspects of our culture.

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Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was professor of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. His Columbia University Press books areAn Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion andWhat's the Use of Truth?

Pascal Engel is ordinary professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Geneva, after having taught at the Sorbonne. He is the author ofThe Norm of Truth, Ramsey, Truth and Success, and Truth, and of books in French on Davidson, the philosophy of the mind, and analytic philosophy. His present work is focused on epistemology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0231140150
• ISBN 13: 9780231140157
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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