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Fear of Knowledge

Paperback • 2007 • English

Fear of Knowledge

By Paul Boghossian

3 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or knowledge from a particular perspective. He demonstrates clearly that such claims don't even make sense. Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed - one as a thesis about truth and two abo...Show more

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ISBN

9780199230419

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Fear of Knowledge

Format

Paperback

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