Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One)
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 00:52:37
• Published: 2018-08-06 15:26

The Cambridge/etc. prof joins Mark, Wes, and Dylan to discuss his book On Truth (2018).

What is truth? Simon's view synthesizes deflationism and pragmatism to avoid relativism by fixing on the domain-specific procedures we actually engage in to establish the truth of a claim, whether in ethics, science, art, or whatever. A gift of clarity after two episodes threshing through the jungles of analytic philosophy!

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