Tetralogue (I'am right, you're wrong)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780198728887
- ISBN10 0198728883
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 153
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2015
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Hardcover
Tetralogue (I'am right, you're wrong)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep in.
In a tradition going back to Plato, Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore questions about truth and falsity, and knowledge and belief. Is truth always relative to a point of view? Is every opinion fallible? Such ideas have been used to combat dogmatism and intolerance, but are they compatible with taking each opposing point of view seriously? This book presupposes no prior acquaintance with philosophy, and introduces its concerns in an accessible and light-hearted way. Is one point of view really right and the other really wrong? That is for the reader to decide.