Truth

Produktbeschreibung

Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth. Among the questions Blackburn considers are: Is science mere opinion, can historians understand another historical period, and indeed can one culture ever truly understand another? 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Preface


* Introduction


* CHAPTER 1: FAITH, BELIEF AND REASON


* 1: Clifford's Duties


* 23: Fiction and MythJames


* 4: Kinds of Animation


* CHAPTER 2: MAN THE MEASURE


* 1: Turning the Tables: the Recoil Argument


* 2: Modern Judo


* 3: The Variation of Subjectives


* 4: The Moving Bull's-eye


* 5: Doing it Ourselves


* CHAPTER 3: ISHMAEL'S PROBLEM AND THE DELIGHTS OF KEEPING QUIET


* 1: Who Tell the Tale?


* 2: A Gestalt Switch


* 3: You Tell Me, or Down with Pilate


* 4: Moral Relativism


* 5: Man the Measurer


* 6: Summary


* CHAPTER 4: NIETZCHE: THE ARCH DEBUNKER


* 1: Facts or Interpretations?


* 2: Twilight of the Idols


* 3: Perspectivism


* 4: Adequate Words


* 5: Heraclitus and the Flux


* 6: The Darwinian Element


* CHAPTER 5: THE POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHY


* 1: Getting Puzzled


* 2: Four Responses


* 3: Eliminativism


* 4: Realism


* 5: Deconstructing the Issue


* 6: The Constructivist Corner


* 7: The Example of Wittgenstein


* CHAPTER 6: OBSERVATION AND TRUTH: FROM LOCKE TO RORTY


* 1: Paradise Lost


* 2: First Impressions


* 3: Holism


* 4: Davidson's Mantle


* 5: Rorty's Talking World


* 6: Keeping our Feet on the Ground


* 7: Interlude: Law, Tennis, and the Coffee-house


* 8: A Political Message


* CHAPTER 7: REALISM AS SCIENCE; REALISM ABOUT SCIENCE


* 1: No Miracles


* 2: Science Red in Tooth and Claw


* 3: Explaining from Within


* 4: Animation and Belief Again


* 5: Underdetermination


* CHAPTER 8: HISTORIANS AND OTHERS


* 1: Conceptual Schemes


* 2: Mind Reading


* 3: Mirroring


* 4: Infirmities


* 5: Collectives and their Histories


* 6: Peace Breaks Out


* Notes


* Index 

Autoreninfo

Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He was Edna J. Doury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and from 1969 to 1990 was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is the author of The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and the best-selling Think and Being Good, among other books.