Name: Truth's Debt to Value (en Inglés)
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Author: David Weissman
ISBN: 9780300124804

portada Truth's Debt to Value (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Yale University Press

Autor

David Weissman

Año

1993

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0300124805

ISBN13

9780300124804

Categorías

Epistemología y teoría del conocimiento

Truth's Debt to Value (en Inglés)

David Weissman (Autor) · Yale University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Truth's Debt to Value (en Inglés)"

Is something true because we believe it to be so or because it is true? How can a culturally bound community achieve scientific knowledge when values, attitudes, and desires shape its beliefs? In this book an eminent philosopher considers various schools of thought on the nature of truth. David Weissman argues that truth exists in the correspondence between statement and fact: what can be said about our world can be measured against a reality that has a character and existence independent of any property we ascribe to it.Weissman begins by evaluating the transcendental paradigm of Kant that has exercised enormous influence in the development of Western thought over the past two hundred years. He develops his critique of the Kantian model, in which value judgments underlie the perception or construction of truth, asserting that it is seriously flawed because it renders a determination of truth impossible. Weissman examines various value-driven perspectives on truth developed by such philosophers as Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty, for whom truth is only the set of affirmations, principles, and procedures sanctioned by power and value. However, says Weissman, truth is the required adjunct to desire. Knowing who we are, where we have been, and the consequences of what we have done is the essential preparation for choosing what to do next. We must respect the integrity of a world we have not made and find our way within it with the help of attitudes and desires that have been informed by truth.