Truth
18 Dec, 2014
100 Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of truth. Pontius Pilate famously asked: what is truth? In the twentieth century, the nature of truth became a subject of particular interest to philosophers, but they preferred to ask a slightly different question: what does it mean to say of any particular statement that it is true? What is the difference between these two questions, and how useful is the second of them?
Guests
- Simon Blackburn
4 episodes
Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities -
Jennifer Hornsby No other episodes
Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London -
Crispin Wright No other episodes
Regius Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, and Professor of Philosophy at New York University
Reading list
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Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate
Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd (eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2005) Google Books → -
Truth: A Guide
Simon Blackburn (Oxford University Press, 2007) Google Books → -
Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed
Simon Blackburn (Penguin, 2006) Google Books → -
Truth
Simon Blackburn and Keith Simmons (eds) (Oxford University Press, 1999) Google Books → -
Truth as One and Many
Michael P. Lynch (Oxford University Press, 2009) Google Books →
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