Holistic Alethic Pluralism: A Reformational Research Program
This essay lays out a reformational research program on the idea of truth. First it describes challenges to the idea of truth in contemporary philosophy and gives reasons why a robust conception of truth is needed. Next it presents two overriding concerns – ontological and axiological – that such a...
| Publié dans: | Philosophia reformata |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2016
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Philosophia reformata
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| RelBib Classification: | VA Philosophie VB Herméneutique; philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Truth
justification
propositions
facts
alethic pluralism
analytic philosophy
continental philosophy
reformational philosophy
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| Résumé: | This essay lays out a reformational research program on the idea of truth. First it describes challenges to the idea of truth in contemporary philosophy and gives reasons why a robust conception of truth is needed. Next it presents two overriding concerns – ontological and axiological – that such a conception should address. In addressing these concerns, a contemporary reformational approach will take up three sets of issues: relations between propositional truth and the discursive justification of truth claims; distinctions and connections between propositional and nonpropositional truth; and the sorts of cultural practices and social institutions within which truth occurs. My detailed response to these issues, as sketched in the last section of the essay, is to propose a holistic, normative, and structurally pluralist conception of truth, one that I call holistic alethic pluralism. Propositional truth is important but not all-important, and reformational philosophy needs to show why that is so. |
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| ISSN: | 2352-8230 |
| Contient: | In: Philosophia reformata
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08102002 |