Truth Matters
Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2013
344 pages
978-0-7735-8997-1 (ISBN)
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A pioneering study of why truth is important in philosophy, public culture, and everyday life.
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Lambert Zuidervaart | Allyson Carr | Matthew J. Klaassen
Truth Matters
Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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Persons
Zuidervaart Lambert:
Lambert Zuidervaart is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies and the University of Toronto and coeditor of Truth Matters: Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion.Shuker Ronnie:
Ronnie ShukerLambert Zuidervaart is professor of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies and the University of Toronto. Allyson Carr is associate director of the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics at the Institute for Christian Studies.
Matthew J. Klaassen is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies.
Ronnie Shuker is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies.
Lambert Zuidervaart is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies and the University of Toronto and coeditor of Truth Matters: Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion.Shuker Ronnie:
Ronnie ShukerLambert Zuidervaart is professor of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies and the University of Toronto. Allyson Carr is associate director of the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics at the Institute for Christian Studies.
Matthew J. Klaassen is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies.
Ronnie Shuker is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE: TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE
- 1 How Not to Be an Anti-realist: Habermas, Truth, and Justification
- 2 Radical Constructivism, Education, and Truth as Life-Giving Disclosure
- 3 The Jelly and the Shot: Laying down the Law for Pragmatism in Quantum Physics
- 4 Cognitive Diversity, Conceptual Schemes, and Truth
- PART TWO: TRUTH AND POLITICS
- 5 Exposure and Disclosure: The Risk of Hermeneutical Truth in Democratic Politics
- 6 Truthfulness, Discourse, and the Problem of Pluralism
- 7 A Comparative Ethics Approach to the Concept of Bearing Witness: A Practice in Christian Theology and Journalism
- 8 Narrative Truth in Canadian Historical Fiction: In between Veracity and Imagination
- PART THREE: TRUTH AND ETHICS
- 9 Truth, Truthfulness, and the I-Self Relationship
- 10 Does Truth Matter to Ethics? Kierkegaard, Ethics, and the Subjectivity of Truth
- 11 Theories of Concepts and Moral Truth
- 12 Educating for Truthfulness
- PART FOUR: TRUTH AND RELIGION
- 13 Truth Unveiled: Balthasar and the Contemplation of Christian Truth
- 14 Truth as "Being Trued": Intersections between Ontological Truth in Aquinas and the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
- 15 Bedevilling Truth: "What Have I to Do with Thee?"
- 16 A Concept of Artistic Truth Prompted by Biblical Wisdom Literature
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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