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Partial Truths and Our Common Future: A Perspectival Theory of Truth and Value - SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought Crosby, Donald A. (Colorado State University)
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Partial Truths and Our Common Future: A Perspectival Theory of Truth and Value - SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Crosby, Donald A. (Colorado State University)
In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how partial truths are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binary--those between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil--and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life.
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 1 de setembro de 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781438471334 |
| Editoras | State University of New York Press |
| Páginas | 212 |
| Dimensões | 152 × 229 × 25 mm · 417 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
