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What's the Use of Truth? (Paperback)
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What's the Use of Truth? (Paperback)
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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 and
points to the preconceptions that lie behind truth in both the
intellectual and social spheres. Engel prefers a realist
conception, defending the relevance and value of truth as a norm of
belief and inquiry in both science and the public domain. Rorty
finds more danger in using the notion of truth than in getting rid
of it. Engel thinks it is important to hold on to the idea that
truth is an accurate representation of reality. In Rorty's view,
epistemology is an artificial construct meant to restore a function
to philosophy usurped by the success of empirical science.
Epistemology and ontology are false problems, and with their demise
goes the Cartesian dualism of subject and object and the ancient
problematic of appearance and reality. Conventional "philosophical
problems," Rorty asserts, are just symptoms of the professionalism
that has disfigured the discipline since the time of Kant. Engel,
however, is by no means as complacent as Rorty in heralding the
"end of truth," and he wages a fierce campaign against the
"veriphobes" who deny its value. What's the Use of Truth? is a rare
opportunity to experience each side of this impassioned debate
clearly and concisely. It is a subject that has profound
implications not only for philosophical inquiry but also for the
future study of all aspects of our culture.
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