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9780826476081

Why Truth Matters

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826476081

  • ISBN10:

    0826476082

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-04-09
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in all its forms and traditions. However, in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to assorted political and ideological agendas, along with

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi
The Antinomies of Truth
1(21)
Truth, Doubt and the Philosophers
22(22)
The Truth Radicals
44(21)
The Social Construction of Truth
65(18)
Politics, Ideology and Evolutionary Biology
83(24)
Wishful Thinking and Epistemological Confusion
107(28)
Institutions, Academe and Truth
135(26)
Why Truth Matters
161(22)
Notes 183(14)
Index 197

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