Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
August 6, 201848m 32s
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Show Notes
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!