Aspects of Truth
A New Religious Metaphysics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19905732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Pickstock (0000-0002-4356-811X, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Aspects of Truth (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108885614 |
| OpenAlex | W4234239485 |
| ISBN | 9781108885614 |
| Open Library | OL34762172M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
What is 'truth'? The question that Pilate put to Jesus was laced with dramatic irony. But at a time when what is true and what is untrue have acquired a new currency, the question remains of crucial significance. Is truth a matter of the representation of things which lack truth in themselves? Or of mere coherence? Or is truth a convenient if redundant way of indicating how one's language refers to things outside oneself? In her ambitious new book, Catherine Pickstock addresses these profound questions, arguing that epistemological approaches to truth either fail argumentatively or else offer only vacuity. She advances instead a bold metaphysical and realist appraisal which overcomes the Kantian impasse of 'subjective knowing' and ban on reaching beyond supposedly finite limits. Her book contends that in the end truth cannot be separated from the transcendent reality of the thinking soul
Alethiology · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Coherence theory of truth · Epistemology · Irony · Linguistics · Logical truth · Metaphysics · Political science · Pragmatic theory of truth · Representation (politics) · Soul · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |