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. Ed(S): International Balzan Foundation - Truth in Science, the Humanities and Religion - 9781402098956 - V9781402098956
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Truth in Science, the Humanities and Religion

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Description for Truth in Science, the Humanities and Religion Hardback. Reports on the proceedings of 2008 Balzan Symposium. This book shows how an interdisciplinary dialog on 'truth', can lead to a better mutual understanding of what are all too often seen as irreconcilable points of view. Editor(s): International Balzan Foundation. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1020.
by the Academies of the two countries – to the Italian-Swiss University of Lugano for the two-day-Symposium. The question of the meaning of “truth” is central to many areas of contemporary debate, whether between those subscribing to a post-Enlightenment view of the world and those who seek fundamental truth in religious texts, or between those maintaining that there are absolute truths and those believing facts to be social constructs. For some, the ultimate truth is revealed through religious faith and t- tual authority. Can this view be reconciled with an evidence-based, materialist, post-Enlightenment perspective of the truth as embraced by ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402098956
SKU
V9781402098956
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About . Ed(S): International Balzan Foundation
The Balzan Foundation is a high profile organization that has surrounded itself with a list of renowned and established scholars, among them Nobel Prize winners and nominees. They fund three annual prizes (one for literature, moral sciences and art; one for physics, mathematics, natural sciences and medicine; and one for humanities, peace and brotherhood amongst people) and organize a symposium ... Read more

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