Truth and Judgement

A cura di: Patrick Nerhot

Truth and Judgement

This volume attempts to investigate what has now become a cliché: has the relativist culture, some would also say nihilist, truly assumed general philosophical importance? What if the relativist culture of our times, which claims to be an insuperable truth and by no means relative, hid a far more complex and ambiguous reality?

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Pages: 288

ISBN: 9788846498045

Edition: 1a edizione 2008

Publisher code: 495.195

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This volume attempts, from many points of view, to investigate what has now become a cliché: has the relativist culture, some would also say nihilist, truly assumed general philosophical importance? What if the relativist culture of our times, which claims to be an insuperable truth and by no means relative, hid a far more complex and ambiguous reality?
Certainly, contemporary epistemology is reorienting itself; but does this reorientation express a 'relativism'? We doubt it. More precisely, the collection of texts presented in this book attempts to give account of a system that is more complex than is commonly thought, offering the reader a vast overview of the modern-day sensibilities in the field of epistemology, that are not reduced to a relativism.

Patrick Nerhot is a full professor of Philosophy of Law at the Law Faculty, Turin University, Italy. A selection of his publications: Legal Knowledge and Analogy. Fragments of Legal Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Linguistics (ed.), Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1991; Law Writing, Meaning: an Essay in legal Hermeneutics, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1992; L'ipotesi perduta della legge, Cedam, Padova, 1994; La fenomenologia della filosofia analitica del linguaggio ordinario, Cedam, Padova, 1998; Questions phénoménologiques suivies de lectures freudiennes, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2002; La métaphore du passage. Le concept de temps chez Saint Augustin, fondement d'une nouvelle éthique, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2008.



Patrick Nerhot, Introduction
Part 1. Against Relativism
Michael P. Lynch, How to be a Relativist
Hans Rott, Negative Doxastic Voluntarism and the Ethics of Belief
Mario Jori, External and Internal Truths in Legal Theory and the Social Sciences
Pierre Livet, Revision and Truth
Patrick Nerhot, Text and Meaning
Paolo Heritier, The Relativist Serpent
Part 2. Facing the Truth
Pierre Livet, Conviction and Emotion: When Cognitive Dissonance and Revision Can Change Our Vision of Truth and Argumentation
Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte, Relativism, Truth and the Crisis of Epistemology
Giovanni Tuzet, On Logic and Argumentation
Frans H. van Eemeren, Valuing Validity as Reasonableness. Rationale for a Pragma-Dialectical Perspective
Nicholás Sánchez Durá, Understanding our Past. Descriptions and Judgements of Value
Patrick Nerhot, Cause and Effect in a Rational Reasoning.

Contributors: Paolo Heritier, Mario Jori, Pierre Livet, Michael P. Lynch, Hans Rott, Nicholas Sanchez Dura, Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte, Giovanni Tuzet, Frans H. van Eemeren

Serie: Filosofia

Subjects: Philosophy of Law

Level: Scholarly Research

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