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1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) |
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Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE; 1. How Not to Be an Anti-realist: Habermas, Truth, and Justification; 2. Radical Constructivism, Education, and Truth as Life-Giving Disclosure; 3. The Jelly and the Shot: Laying down the Law for Pragmatism in Quantum Physics; 4. Cognitive Diversity, Conceptual Schemes, and Truth; PART TWO: TRUTH AND POLITICS; 5 Exposure and Disclosure: The Risk of Hermeneutical Truth in Democratic Politics; 6. Truthfulness, Discourse, and the Problem of Pluralism |
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7. A Comparative Ethics Approach to the Concept of Bearing Witness: A Practice in Christian Theology and Journalism; 8. Narrative Truth in Canadian Historical Fiction: In between Veracity and Imagination; PART THREE: TRUTH AND ETHICS; 9. Truth, Truthfulness, and the I-Self Relationship; 10. Does Truth Matter to Ethics? Kierkegaard, Ethics, and the Subjectivity of Truth; 11. Theories of Concepts and Moral Truth; 12. Educating for Truthfulness; PART FOUR: TRUTH AND RELIGION; 13. Truth Unveiled: Balthasar and the Contemplation of Christian Truth |
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14. Truth as "Being Trued": Intersections between Ontological Truth in Aquinas and the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion;15. Bedevilling Truth: "What Have I to Do with Thee?"; 16. A Concept of Artistic Truth Prompted by Biblical Wisdom Literature; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Why should we seek and tell the truth? Does anyone know what truth is? Many are skeptical about the relevance of truth. Truth Matters endeavours to show why truth is important in a world where the very idea of truth is contested. Putting philosophers in conversation with educators, literary scholars, physicists, political theorists, and theologians, Truth Matters ranges across both analytic and continental philosophy and draws on the ideas of thinkers such as Aquinas, Balthasar, Brandom, Davidson, Dooyeweerd, Gadamer, Habermas, Kierkegaard, Plantinga, Ricoeur, and Wolterstorff. Some essays attempt to provide a systematic account of truth, while others wrestle with the question of how truth is told and what it means to live truthfully. Contributors address debates between realists and anti-realists, explore issues surrounding relativism and constructivism in education and the social sciences, examine the politics of truth telling and the ethics of authenticity, and consider various religious perspectives on truth. Most scholars agree that truth is propositional, being expressed in statements that are subject to proof or disproof. This book goes a step farther: yes, propositional truth is important, but truth is more than propositional. To recognize how it is more than propositional is crucial for understanding why truth truly matters. Contributors include Doug Blomberg (ICS), Allyson Carr (ICS), Jeffrey Dudiak (King's University College), Olaf Ellefson (York University), Gerrit Glas (VU University Amsterdam), Gill K. Goulding (Regis College), Jay Gupta (Mills College), Clarence Joldersma (Calvin College), Matthew J. Klaassen (ICS), John Jung Park (Duke University), Pamela J. Reeve (St. Augustine's Seminary), Amy Richards (World Affairs Council of Western Michigan), Calvin Seerveld (ICS), Ronnie Shuker (ICS), Adam Smith (Brandeis University), John Van Rys (Redeemer University College), Darren Walhof (Grand Valley State University), Matthew Walhout (Calvin College), and Lambert Zuidervaart (ICS) |
| Notes |
Based on a conference held at the University of Toronto in August 2010 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Truth -- Congresses
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Truth
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Zuidervaart, Lambert, author, writer of preface, editor.
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Shuker, Ronnie, editor.
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Carr, Allyson, writer of introduction, editor.
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Klaassen, Matthew, writer of introduction, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780773589971 |
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077358997X |
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9780773589988 |
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0773589988 |
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