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What's the Use of Truth?. Pascal Engel, Richard Rorty

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Language: English
Page: 96
ISBN: 0231140142, 9780231140140

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In one corner is Rorty, a philosopher and public intellectual who, as part of a broad and provocative critique of analytic philosophy, has provocatively attacked the notion of objective truth itself. In the other corner is Engel, whose Truth (2002) emphasized the practical necessity of a notion of objective truth in inquiry and conversation. This brief and pithy book pits the two philosophical heavyweights against each other in a debate over a simple, profound question: Are notions of objective truth worth the philosophical trouble they seem to create? Addressing a particularly intractable issue in contemporary continental and analytic philosophy, the debate between Rorty and Engel is particularly complex because both men are themselves the hybrid products of both schools of thought. Their debate is predictably intense--at times threatening to spill over into political matters--but also surprisingly productive, both in isolating the true sticking points of the debate and in efficiently educating readers. Necessary for serious philosophy collections, this selection may also interest readers engaged by Harry Frankfurt's recent On Truth (2006) but hungry for a more in-depth scholarly discussion of some of the same issues. Brendan Driscoll
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Necessary for serious philosophy collections.