عنوان

What's the use of truth? /

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0231140142

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9780231140140

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b726233

Title Proper

What's the use of truth? /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Richard Rorty & Pascal Engel ; edited by Patrick Savidan ; translated by William McCuaig.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 80 pages ;

Dimensions

19 cm

Text of Note

French ed. cataloged as: A quoi bon la vérité / Pascal Engel, Richard Rorty ; édité par P. Savidan.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-80).

Text of Note

Introduction / Patrick Savidan -- Main statement by Pascal Engel -- Main statement by Richard Rorty -- Appendix : Pascal Engel : Truth.

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Text of Note

"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." "Rorty doubts that the notion of truth can be of any practical use and points to the preconceptions that lie behind truth in both the intellectual and social spheres. Engel prefers a realist conception, defending the relevance and value of truth as a norm of belief and inquiry in both science and the public domain. Rorty finds more danger in using the notion of truth than in getting rid of it. Engel thinks it is important to hold on to the idea that truth is an accurate representation of reality." "In Rorty's view, epistemology is an artificial construct meant to restore a function to philosophy usurped by the success of empirical science. Epistemology and ontology are false problems, and with their demise goes the Cartesian dualism of subject and object and the ancient problematic of appearance and reality. Conventional "philosophical problems," Rorty asserts, are just symptoms of the professionalism that has disfigured the discipline since the time of Kant. Engel, however, is by no means as complacent as Rorty in heralding the "end of truth," and he wages a fierce campaign against the "veriphobes" who deny its value."--Jacket.

General Material Designation

A quoi bon la vérite.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Truth.

Truth.

Truth.

Waarheid.

Wahrheit

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7

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Rorty, Richard.

Engel, Pascal,1954-

Savidan, Patrick,1965-

Date of Transaction

20201213201722.0

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[Book]

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