Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-Telling in Post-Shining Path Peru

Chapter 9 claimed that a way to preserve ideas about truth-making is to think of truth differently for different sorts of claims. However, what, exactly is the connection between t...

This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around “post-truth” have been explored in the world of theater and performance. This ranges from the plays of Ca...

A taxonomy of theories of truth is provided. Two versions of deflationist theories of “true” are distinguished, T-schema deflationism and semantic-descent deflationism. These are d...

Abstract Aristotle argues that the actions central to human flourishing are those that involve reason. But reason manifests itself in a human life in more than one w...

The word “relativism” has been applied to many different positions in philosophy. This chapter focuses on a contemporary version of relativism. According to this version of relativ...

Stephen King’s The Shining (1977) is one of the most popular horror novels of all time. It tells the story of a family snowed in at a haunted hotel. The father, Jack Torrance, drea...

Once we have rejected the notion of a subject-independent objectivity, we lack any basis for assuming that our emotional responses project value onto a neutral world. Love’s vision...