1st Edition
Social Domains of Truth Science, Politics, Art, and Religion
1. Introduction: Truth Is Not a Minted Coin
1.1 On the Very Idea of Truth
1.2 Kinds and Domains of Truth
1.3 Holistic Alethic Pluralism
2. Propositional Truth: Facts and Propositions
2.1 Facts and States of Affairs
2.2 Beliefs and Propositions
2.3 Decontextualized Disclosure
3. Accurate Insight and Inferential Validity
3.1 Knowledge and Propositions
3.2 Truth of Propositions
3.3 Propositional Truth and Objective Knowledge
4. Alethic Pluralism
4.1 Functionalism: Michael Lynch
4.2 Practical Pluralism
4.3 Social Domains of Truth
5. Propositional Truth and Discursive Justification
5.1 Alston’s Minimal Alethic Realism
5.2 Putnam’s Internal Realism
5.3 Post-Anti/Realism
6. Truth as a Whole and Authentication
6.1 Isomorphism, Fidelity, and Disclosure
6.2 Kinds and Types of Truth
6.3 Bearing Witness to Truth
6.4 Modes of Authentication
7. Truth and Science
7.1 Science as a Social Domain
7.2 Scientific Realism and Theoretical Truth
7.3 Science in Society
8. Truth and Politics
8.1 Hannah Arendt: Speaking Truth to Power
8.2 Michel Foucault: Linking Power to Truth
8.3 Political Truth
9. Truth in Art and Religion
9.1 Artistic Truth
9.2 Art and Politics
9.3 Religious Truth
9.4 Religion and Science
10. Philosophy, Truth, and Wisdom
10.1 Art, Religion, and Philosophy
10.2 Truth and Historicity
10.3 Social Critique and Practical Wisdom
Biography
Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies and at the University of Toronto. He is the author of eleven books, including Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School (MIT Press, 2017), Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture (Cambridge UP, 2011), and Social Philosophy after Adorno (Cambridge UP, 2007). He has contributed to The Routledge Handbook of the Frankfurt School (2018), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2015), and journals like the European Journal of Philosophy, Telos, and Philosophy and Social Criticism.
