TY  - GEN
T1  - Partial truths and our common future : a perspectival theory of truth and value
T2  - SUNY series in American philosophy and cultural thought.
A1  - Crosby, Donald A.
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - SUNY Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1056077253
AB  - 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.
OP  - 214
CN  - BD171 .C76 2018
SN  - 9781438471358
SN  - 1438471351
SN  - 9781438471334
KW  - Truth.
KW  - Vérité.
KW  - truth.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology.
KW  - Truth
ER  -