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Author Vardy, Peter.

Title What is truth? / Peter Vardy
Published Sydney : UNSW Press, 1999

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Description x, 202 pages ; 22cm
Series New College lectures
New College lectures.
Contents pt. 1. What is Truth? 1. The implications of a denial of truth -- or the claim to have it. 2. Realism and anti-realism. 3. Foundations without indubitability. 4. Anti-realism in religion and morality. 5. Constructivism in psychology. 6. The scene is set -- pt. 2. There is no Truth Out there. 7. Ontology and epistemology. 8. Hegel and Marx. 9. Nietzsche and Ivan Karamazov. 10. The denial of a real world. 11. Post-modernism. 12. Post-modernism and self-identity. 13. Interim conclusion -- pt. 3. The Centre Can Hold. 14. The path to truth. 15. The Kotzker. 16. Soren Kierkegaard and subjectivity. 17. Wittgenstein and perspicuity. 18. The Sufis. 19. Vaclav Havel and living the Truth. 20. Fear and freedom. 21. Bringing the threads together
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Belief and doubt.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophers.
Religion and ethics.
Truth.
LC no. 00002016
ISBN 0868407933