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Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age: Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism

Autor Sami Pihlström
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 sep 2021
It is commonly believed that populist politics and social media pose a serious threat to our concept of truth. Philosophical pragmatists, who are typically thought to regard truth as merely that which is 'helpful' for us to believe, are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the phenomenon of 'post-truth'. In this book, Sami Pihlström develops a pragmatist account of truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James, and defends a thoroughly pragmatist view of humanism which gives space for a sincere search for truth. By elaborating on James's pragmatism and the 'will to believe' strategy in the philosophy of religion, Pihlström argues for a Kantian-inspired transcendental articulation of pragmatism that recognizes irreducible normativity as a constitutive feature of our practices of pursuing the truth. James himself thereby emerges as a deeply Kantian thinker.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781316517703
ISBN-10: 1316517705
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 158 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. James's children? The pragmatist conception of truth and the slippery slope to 'Post-Truth'; 2. Religious truth and pluralism from a pragmatist point of view; 3. Around or through Kant? Kantian transcendental pessimism and Jamesian empirical meliorism; 4. The will to believe and holistic pragmatism; 5. How is normativity possible? A holistic-pragmatist perspective; 6. Pragmatic agnosticism – meaning, truth, and suffering; Conclusion. Pragmatic transcendental humanism; References; Index.

Recenzii

'Recommended.' J. R. Shook, Choice Connect

Notă biografică

Professor of Philosophy of Religion since 2014. For cv and a full list of publications, see https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/sami-pihlstr%C3%B6m.

Descriere

Engages in a self-critical examination of the pragmatist conception of truth integrating ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.