Why truth matters / Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom.

By: Benson, Ophelia
Contributor(s): Stangroom, Jeremy
Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, c2006Description: 202 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0826476082; 9780826476081Subject(s): TruthDDC classification: 121 LOC classification: BD171 | .B44 2006Other classification: 08.32 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Table of contents only | Publisher description
Contents:
The antinomies of truth -- Truth, doubt and the philosophers -- The truth radicals -- The social construction of truth -- Politics, ideology and evolutionary biology -- Wishful thinking and epistemological confusion -- Institutions, academe and truth -- Why truth matters.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The antinomies of truth -- Truth, doubt and the philosophers -- The truth radicals -- The social construction of truth -- Politics, ideology and evolutionary biology -- Wishful thinking and epistemological confusion -- Institutions, academe and truth -- Why truth matters.

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