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Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism and Response-Dependence
Christopher Norris
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Description for Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism and Response-Dependence
Paperback. Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to the philosophical issue of response-dependence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to response-dependence, a topic that has become a main focus of interest for philosophers across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas. The response-dependence claim, in brief, is to provide a 'third way' between the realist (or objectivist) conception of truth as always potentially transcending the limits of human ascertainment and the anti-realist (or verificationist) case that truth cannot possibly transcend those limits since then we could never acquire or manifest a knowledge of it. While setting out the issues clearly and concisely, Norris also provides some relevant background history to this ... Read more
Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to response-dependence, a topic that has become a main focus of interest for philosophers across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas. The response-dependence claim, in brief, is to provide a 'third way' between the realist (or objectivist) conception of truth as always potentially transcending the limits of human ascertainment and the anti-realist (or verificationist) case that truth cannot possibly transcend those limits since then we could never acquire or manifest a knowledge of it. While setting out the issues clearly and concisely, Norris also provides some relevant background history to this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748615988
SKU
V9780748615988
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About Christopher Norris
Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff, Wales. He is the author of many widely-acclaimed books on various aspects of philosophy and critical theory, among them (most recently) Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism and Minding the Gap: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Two Traditions.
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