Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism

by Paul Boghossian

Book Overview

Relativist and constructivist conceptions of truth and knowledge have become orthodoxy in vast stretches of the academic world in recent times. In his long-awaited first book, Paul Boghossian critically examines such views and exposes their fundamental flaws.

Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed--one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019928718X
• ISBN13: 9780199287185
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"