Book description
This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the
wars that are fought between them. As Simon Blackburn says in his
introduction, "the ground is complicated, strewn with abandoned
fortresses and trenches, fought over by shifting alliances".
Truth
is an essential sure-footed guide through the territory, from classical
to modern times. It looks at relativism and absolutism, toleration and
belief, objectivity and knowledge, science and pseudo-science, and the
moral and political implications, as well as the nuances, of all these.
Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Cambridge, and one of the most widely respected philosophers of our
time. He is the author of many influential books, including the
best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (1994), Think (1999) and
Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (2001). He edited the
prestigious philosophy journal MIND from 1984 to 1990. He is a Fellow of
the British Academy and a frequent contributor to New Republic, and to
discussion programmes on Radio 4 in the UK, and reviews for The
Independent and The Sunday Times.
