What's the Use of Truth?

by Pascal Engel and Richard Rorty

Book Overview

What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it?

The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the American pragmatist Richard Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Pascal Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231140150
• ISBN13: 9780231140157
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.1" x 6.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher