Truth in Context

An Essay on Pluralism and Objectivity

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Michael P Lynch

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Truth in Context

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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 naive. The opposition frequently arguing that any sort of relativism leads to nihilism, insists on an objective notion of truth according to which there in only one true story of the world. Both sides agree there is no middle path. Michael Lynch argues that there is a middle path, one where metaphysical pluralism is consistent with a robust realism about the truth. Drawing on the work of Hilary Putnam, W.V.O. Quine and Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, Lynch develops a 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 Biography:

Michael P. Lynch is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and the author of Truth in Context- An Essay on Pluralism and Objectivity and True to Life- Why Truth Matters, both published by the MIT Press.

Release date Australia

July 27th, 2001

Author

Michael P Lynch

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Interest Age

From 18 years

Pages

196

Series

Truth in Context

Dimensions

152x229x10

ISBN-13

9780262621557

Product ID

12232392

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