Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age
Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 4 April 2024
- ISBN 9781009048347
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 390 g
- Language English 542
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Short description:
Engages in a self-critical examination of the pragmatist conception of truth integrating ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
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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 Pihlstr&&&246;m 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, Pihlstr&&&246;m 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.
'Recommended.' J. R. Shook, Choice Connect
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. James's children? The pragmatist conception of truth and the slippery slope to 'Post-Truth'; 2. Religious truth and pluralism from a pragmatist point of view; 3. Around or through Kant? Kantian transcendental pessimism and Jamesian empirical meliorism; 4. The will to believe and holistic pragmatism; 5. How is normativity possible? A holistic-pragmatist perspective; 6. Pragmatic agnosticism - meaning, truth, and suffering; Conclusion. Pragmatic transcendental humanism; References; Index.
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