Truth and Objectivity
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Published:31st Jan '94
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Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of “realism” in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical “deflationary” conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the “deflationary” conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.
Truth and Objectivity is a strikingly resourceful and serious book, imbued with respect for the difficulty of philosophical problems and a readiness to probe them with all the conceptual instruments of contemporary analytic philosophy. -- Timothy Williamson * International Journal of Philosophical Studies *
A milestone in the discussion of realism. -- Jim Edwards * Mind *
Full of interesting ideas and challenging arguments. -- Frank Jackson * Philosophical Books *
Besides its thorough and subtle examination of [the] multiple criteria of realism, the merit of Truth and Objectivity is to have shown how the naive picture of ‘objective facts’ fragments under scrutiny, to the point that it becomes unclear that we should continue to speak of realism and anti-realism within a domain as if they were definitive positions. -- Paul Horwich * Times Literary Supplement *
ISBN: 9780674910874
Dimensions: 235mm x 152mm x 18mm
Weight: 386g
262 pages