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Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt school :critical retrieval
An innovative, ambitious, tradition-crossing study drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas to propose a new and transformative concept of truth. The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this book, Lambert Zuidervaart examines debates surrounding the idea of truth in twentieth-century German con…
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Post-truth
"Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into info…
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages).
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There are no facts :attentive algorithms, extractive data practices, and the …
"There Are No Facts examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. It unpacks how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, it shows how these spatial architectures of attention and datamining are in turn situated withi…
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The nature of truth :classic and contemporary perspectives
"A Bradford book.""What is truth?" has long been the philosophical question par excellence. The Nature of Truth collects in one volume the twentieth century's most influential philosophical work on the subject. The coverage strikes a balance between classic works and the leading edge of current philosophical research.The essays center around two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature? …
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- 9780262278690
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 802 pages)
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Theories of Truth: A Critical Introduction
A Bradford book."Originally published: ?1992.Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's sy…
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- 9780262277198
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- 1 online resource (xi, 401 pages)
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True to Life: Why Truth Matters
A Bradford book.""In this book, Michael Lynch argues that truth does matter, in both our personal and political lives. Lynch explains that the growing cynicism over truth stems in large part from our confusion over what truth is." "True to Life defends four simple claims : that truth is objective; that it is good to believe what is true; that truth is a goal worthy of inquiry; and that truth ca…
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- 9780262278706
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- 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)
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Coherence in Thought and Action
"A Bradford book."This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions. Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the th…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) :illustrations.
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Veritas: The Correspondence Theory and Its Critics
A Bradford book."A restatement of the correspondence theory of truth together with a defense against objections and alternative theories, including deflationism, minimalism, and pluralism. In Veritas , Gerald Vision defends the correspondence theory of truth -- the theory that truth has a direct relationship to reality -- against recent attacks, and critically examines its most influential alte…
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- 9780262257817
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The Tarskian Turn: Deflationism and Axiomatic Truth
Leon Horsten investigates the relationship between formal theories of truth and contemporary philosophical approaches to truth. He unwinds the crystal maze of the nature of truth to unveil a unified theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298643
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- 1 online resource (xii, 165 pages) :illustrations
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Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, a…
Overview: How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to…
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