Truth and Reality
Title | Truth and Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Rank |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780393008999 |
Rank's development of will psychology led him to a philosophy of the psychological, outlined in Truth and Reality. Here he explores the psychological determinants of the relationship of inner world to outer reality.
From Truth to Reality
Title | From Truth to Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Dyke |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2009-06-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1135246912 |
Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking "Are there numbers?" But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking "Is the sentence 'There are numbers' true?" Such semantic ascent implies that reality can be investigated by investigating our true sentences. This line of thought was dominant in twentieth century philosophy, but is now beginning to be called into question. In From Truth to Reality, Heather Dyke brings together some of the foremost metaphysicians to examine approaches to truth, reality, and the connections between the two. This collection features new and previously unpublished material by JC Beall, Mark Colyvan, Michael Devitt, John Heil, Frank Jackson, Fred Kroon, D. H. Mellor, Luca Moretti, Alan Musgrave, Robert Nola, J. J. C. Smart, Paul Snowdon, and Daniel Stoljar.
Reference, Truth and Reality
Title | Reference, Truth and Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Platts |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2016-08-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1315533871 |
The papers in this collection discuss the central questions about the connections between language, reality and human understanding. The complex relations between accounts of meaning and facts about ordinary speakers’ understanding of their language are examined so as to illuminate the philosophical character of the connections between language and reality. The collection as a whole is a thematically unified treatment of some of the most central questions within contemporary philosophy of language.
Reason, Truth, and Reality
Title | Reason, Truth, and Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Goldstick |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0802095941 |
Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its deductive, inductive, and ethical functioning, Goldstick asks what must hold good for reason so characterized to be a dependable guide to truth.
Truth -- Meaning -- Reality
Title | Truth -- Meaning -- Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Horwich |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-01-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199268917 |
Truth -- Meaning -- Reality presents a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, and reality. Horwich's story begins with his minimalist view of truth -- paving the way to an account of meaning as use. The fourteen essays constitute a coherent and complete expression of this three-pronged philosophy.
The Reality Game
Title | The Reality Game PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Woolley |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1541768248 |
Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? Online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Samuel Woolley shows in this urgent book, it may pale in comparison to what's to come: humanlike automated voice systems, machine learning, "deepfake" AI-edited videos and images, interactive memes, virtual reality, and more. These technologies have the power not just to manipulate our politics, but to make us doubt our eyes and ears and even feelings. Deeply researched and compellingly written, The Reality Game describes the profound impact these technologies will have on our lives. Each new invention built without regard for its consequences edges us further into this digital dystopia. Yet Woolley does not despair. Instead, he argues pointedly for a new culture of innovation, one built around accountability and especially transparency. With social media dragging us into a never-ending culture war, we must learn to stop fighting and instead prevent future manipulation. This book shows how we can use our new tools not to control people but to empower them.
Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality
Title | Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Overell |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2019-10-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030256707 |
Our contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating ‘reality’. With the spectre of buzzwords like ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’ we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal ‘real’ beneath what are positioned as ‘fake’ articulations. To engage with this crisis, this collection argues for the importance of a new conjuncture in communication and cultural studies of media. Building on Hall’s understanding of ‘conjuncture’ as a way of grasping moments within hegemonic struggle, the essays suggest that the current moment requires a revitalization of the concept of conjuncture.