What's the Use of Truth?

Paperback • 2007 • English

What's the Use of Truth?

By Richard Rorty, Pascal Engel

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About the book

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...Show more

Topics in philosophy

Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Social and political philosophy

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ISBN

9780231140140

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

What's the Use of Truth?

Format

Paperback

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