Practices of Truth in Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781032219134 / Twarda / 2023 / 302 str.

Opis

This volume provides a geographically and historically diverse overview of philosophical traditions that establish a deep connection between truth and practice, or even see truth itself as a kind of practice.

Recenzje

"This collection brings together an outstanding group of researchers from a variety of philosophical traditions. Anybody interested in the relation between truth and practice will find much of value herein."

Brett Sherman, University of South Carolina, USA

Spis treści

Introduction Pietro Gori and Lorenzo Serini  1. Truth as a Fundamental Value Duncan Pritchard  2. The Ancient Greek Skeptics’ Practice and its Relation to Truth Richard Bett  3. “A Broken Mirror”: Cynicism and the Scandal of the True Life Marta Faustino  4. Truth and Ideology in Classical China: Mohists vs Zhuangists Mercedes Valmisa  5. Meditative Cultivation and the Force of Truth in Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy Davey K. Tomlinson  6. Skepticism as a Truth-Seeking Practice: The Pyrrhonists, Diderot, and Regulative Epistemology Lorenzo Serini  7. Schopenhauer, the Practice of Beauty, the Practice of Compassion, and Metaphysical Truth Sandra Shapshay  8. Marx’s Materialism of Sensibility as Activity Sabina Vaccarino Bremner  9. Anti-foundationalist Practices of Truth: Foucault, Nietzsche, and James Pietro Gori  10. ‘Not Empiricism and Yet Realism in Philosophy, that is the Hardest Thing’ Genia Schönbaumsfeld  11. Arendt and Transformative Politics Yasemin Sari  12. Historicism as a Truth Practice Anthony Jensen  13. Genealogy as a Practice of Truth: Nietzsche, Foucault, Fanon Daniele Lorenzini  14. “We Come Together for Truth:” Mother’s Movements, Decolonial Feminisms, and Coalitional Practices of Truth Ege Selin Islekel  15. The Pragmatic Conception of truth and the Practices of Inquiry in the Arts and Humanities Sami Pihlström

O autorze

Pietro Gori is Senior Researcher and Invited Lecturer at the NOVA University Lisbon (Institute of Philosophy). He has worked extensively on modern and contemporary philosophy, history and philosophy of science; and epistemology, with a special focus on representatives of an anti-foundationalist turn in philosophy (e.g., Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Mach, and William James).

Lorenzo Serini is Assistant Professor and Director of Student Experience and Progression in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick, where he obtained his PhD in philosophy in 2021. His areas of research and teaching include post-Kantian European philosophy (especially, Nietzsche), the history of skepticism, and regulative epistemology.