Truth and Social Reality
A Metaphysical Inquiry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 July 2025
- ISBN 9780198948452
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 240x164x19 mm
- Weight 463 g
- Language English 619
Categories
Short description:
This volume argues that there are truths about our social world and that those truths are produced by that social world. It looks at questions around truth, reality, objectivity, social construction, and relativism, and provides an account of how gender, race, class, and disability are socially constructed.
MoreLong description:
Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the world. It focuses on the construction of human social kinds like gender, race, class, and disability. The book offers novel accounts of social construction, realism, social kind pluralism, social context, the context-dependency of social truth, and social vagueness.
Overall, Truth and Social Reality presents a realist picture of the social world on which there are objective truths about the way things are in the social world. Social truth is not socially constructed, despite being grounded in a socially constructed reality. The theory it provides nonetheless captures the contingency, alterability, and vagueness of the social world and the context dependency of social truth. The book also addresses the relationships between truth, power, and justice. It argues that truth itself is not a tool of oppression, as some maintain. Rather, truth and truth-telling play an essential role in upending oppression and achieving justice. Truth and Social Reality rebuts the cynicism of the "post-truth" age by defending the possibility and value of social truth.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Truth and Truthmaking
Truthmaking and Social Ontology
Realism and Social Reality
Socially Constructed Truthmakers I: Grounding
Socially Constructed Truthmakers II: Truthmaking
Social Contexts
Relativism, Contextualism, and Objectivity
Vagueness and Social Truth
Truth, Power, and Justice
Conclusion
