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Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age - Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age - Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism (Hardcover, New Ed)
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It is commonly believed that populist politics and social media
pose a serious threat to our concept of truth. Philosophical
pragmatists, who are typically thought to regard truth as merely
that which is 'helpful' for us to believe, are sometimes blamed for
providing the theoretical basis for the phenomenon of 'post-truth'.
In this book, Sami Pihlstroem develops a pragmatist account of
truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James, and
defends a thoroughly pragmatist view of humanism which gives space
for a sincere search for truth. By elaborating on James's
pragmatism and the 'will to believe' strategy in the philosophy of
religion, Pihlstroem argues for a Kantian-inspired transcendental
articulation of pragmatism that recognizes irreducible normativity
as a constitutive feature of our practices of pursuing the truth.
James himself thereby emerges as a deeply Kantian thinker.
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