Guides: PHL 337: Ethics: Truth/Deception

Truth/Deception

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Truth by David Wood (Editor); José Medina (Editor)
This reader on truth puts in conversation some of the main philosophical figures from the twentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions. It focuses on the value or normativity of truth through exposing the dialogues between different schools of thought. It features philosophical figures from the twentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions.Topics addressed include the normative relation between truth and subjectivity, consensus, art, testimony, power, and critique.
Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy by Alexus McLeod
ISBN: 9781783483440
Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy deals with debates surrounding the concept of truth in early Chinese thought, from the earliest periods through to the Han dynasty. Alexus McLeod focuses first on the question of whether there is a concept of truth in early Chinese thought, giving a critical overview of the positions of contemporary scholars on this issue, outlining their arguments and considering objections and possible problems and alternatives. McLeod then goes on to consider a number of possible theories of truth in early Chinese philosophy, giving an overview of what he takes to be the main contenders for truth concepts in the early material, and surrounding concepts and positions.
Pursuit of Truth by Willard V. Quine
ISBN: 0674739507
Quine sketches an epistemological setting for the pursuit of truth. He proceeds to show how reification and reference contribute to the elaborate structure that can indeed relate science to its sensory evidence.Discusses cognitive meaning, objective reference, the grounds of knowledge, observation, and language.
C. S. Lewis as Philosopher by Gary R. Habermas (Editor); Jerry L. Walls (Editor); David J. Baggett (Editor); Tom Morris (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780830828081
What did C. S. Lewis think about truth, goodness and beauty?Fifteen essays explore three major philosophical themes from the writings of Lewis--Truth, Goodness and Beauty. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Lewis's philosophical thinking on arguments for Christianity, the character of God, theodicy, moral goodness, heaven and hell, a theory of literature and the place of the imagination.
Tradition and Authenticity in the Search for Ecumenic Wisdom by Thomas Langan
ISBN: 9780826208002
Publication Date: 1992-02-01
Our emerging world system is bringing the great traditions and cultures it has spawned into ever more intimate and dangerous contact. Langan argues that we must struggle toward a unity of discourse respectful of genuine experiences of varying civilizations if we are to live peacefully on one planet.
Speech Matters: on lying, morality, and the law by Seana Valentine Shiffrin
ISBN: 9780691157023
Publication Date: 2014-12-28
To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against lying and requires protection for free speech. This book makes a distinctive philosophical argument for the wrong of the lie and provides an original account of its difference from the wrong of deception. Drawing on legal as well as philosophical arguments, the book defends a series of notable claims; that you may not lie about everything to the "murderer at the door," that you have reasons to keep promises offered under duress, that lies are not protected by free speech, that police subvert their mission when they lie to suspects, and that scholars undermine their goals when they lie to research subjects.

On Kierkegaard and the Truth by Paul L. Holmer
ISBN: 0227901193
Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much contemporary scholarly discussion. Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie Kierkegaard to any particular "school." He likewise criticizes biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently, seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his reader's own ethical and religious capacities. His carefully textured account of Kierkegaard's conceptual grammar of "truth" in ethical and religious contexts addresses immediately current discussions of truth, meaning, reference, and realism versus antirealism, relativism, and hermeneutics.
Truth and Faith in Ethics by Hayden Ramsay (Editor)
ISBN: 9781845402556
This addition to the St Andrews Studies series contains a wide-ranging collection of essays on all aspects of moral philosophy and its impact upon public life in the twenty-first century. The book brings together ethicists from a variety of traditions interested in moral truth and its relation to religious faith. A key theme is interaction between major Catholic thinkers with philosophers from non-religious traditions. Topics include reason and religion, natural law, God and morality, anti-consequentialism, rights and virtues.
Media Ethics by Matthew Kieran
ISBN: 9780203270257
Publication Date: 1998-03-01
Media Ethics brings together philosophers, academics and media professionals to debate pressing ethical and moral questions for journalists and the media and to examine basic notions such as truth, virtue, privacy, rights, offence, harm and freedom which are used in answering them.
Truth by Alexis Burgess; Alexis G. G. Burgess; John P. P. Burgess; Alexis G. Burgess; John P. Burgess
ISBN: 9781400838691
This book offers an introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. It is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. The authors cover a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth-value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from Alfred Tarski to Saul Kripke and beyond. The book provides a rich picture of contemporary philosophical theorizing about truth.
Self and Deception by Roger T. Ames; Wimal Dissanayake
ISBN: 0585067813
On the very possibility of self-deception / Brian P. McLaughlin -- Vital but dangerous art of ignoring : selective attention and self-deception / Annette C. Baier -- User-friendly self-deception / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Self, deception, and self-deception in philosophy / Robert C. Solomon -- Bad faith and Kitsch as models for self-deception / Kathleen Marie Higgins -- Unloading the self-refutation charge / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Falsity, psychic indefiniteness, and self-knowledge / Joel J. Kupperman -- Confucian perspective on self-deception / A.S. Cua. Confucian construction of a self-deceivable self / Robert Cummings Neville -- Classical Chinese self and hypocrisy / Roger T. Ames -- Our names are legion for we are many : on the academics of deception / David L. Hall -- Half-dressed emperor : societal self-deception and recent "Japanokritik" in America / William R. LaFleur -- Facing the self with masks : perspectives on the personal from Nietzsche and the Japanese / Graham Parkes -- Self-deception : a comparative study / Eliot Deutsch -- Self-deception and cultural contextualization : reflections on two Indian novels / Wimal Dissanayake -- Ritual, self-deception, and make-believe : a classical Buddhist perspective / Richard P. Hayes.