Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and "false" as meaningful categories, and...(展开全部)

哈里•法蘭克福（Harry G.Frankfurt）繼上本暢銷書《放屁》(On Bullshit) 提出胡說、屁話和虛假的理論後，開始處理更重要的事物：真實。 在《論真實》中，法蘭克福探討《放屁》未深究的問題。在前書中作者論及，有些哲學家或公眾人物根本不承認「真」和「假」是有意義的類別，他們只在乎自己說的話是否能有效操弄他人的態度和觀點。也有許多人僅在絕對必要時才使用真相，其餘時候總是動用真實的替代品來銷售自己的觀點和理念。這種文化持續下去，會讓人們對真實的「價值和重要性」逐漸缺乏關心，一種無視真理的「傳染病」出現在公眾人物和政客當中，對社會造成莫大的傷害。這也是為什麼作者認為，屁話比說謊更傷害人類社會。 然而，在前本書中，作者沒有談到「為什麼不在乎真實」對我們社會的傷害這麼大？ 於是，作者在本書中處理以下幾個問題：真實為何真的重要，以及到底哪一...(展开全部)

In the first in a new series of easily digestible, commute-lengthbooks of original philosophy, renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means Riding to work in the morning has has become commonplace. We ride everywhere. Physicians and public health officials plead with us to get out and walk, to get some exercise. People used to l...(展开全部)

This monograph purports to provide a solution to semantical paradoxes like the Liar. The authors base this solution on J. L. Austin's idea of truth, which is fundamental to situation semantics. They compare two models of language, propositions and truth, one based on Russell and the other on Austin, as they bear on the Liar Paradox. In Russell's view, a sentence expresses a pro...(展开全部)

The analysis of the connections between truth, meaning, thought, and action poses a major philosophical challenge-one that Donald Davidson addressed by establishing a unified theory of language and mind. This volume offers a reappraisal of Davidson's intellectual legacy. Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of enduring philosop...(展开全部)

J.M.库切 J. M. Coetzee 1940年生于南非，当代最重要的作家之一，两次获得布克奖，2003年诺贝尔文学奖得主。作品包括《等待野蛮人》《迈克尔·K的生活和时代》《耻》《夏日》《耶稣的童年》，等等。库切现居澳大利亚。 阿拉贝拉·库尔茨 Arabella Kurtz 英国心理学家，曾在英国国家卫生局的法医心理健康部门担任要职，目前是英国莱斯特大学临床心理学高级导师。

Praise for THE GOOD STORY "Coetzee's writing is characteristically spare and penetrating....Kurtz proves both a lucid expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to life with rare precision and immediacy." —Literary Review "It is the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist's agenda that drives the absorbing discussions of this book. Kurtz'...(展开全部)

In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. Part I addresses crucial background issues, including the identification of the bearers of truth, the basis for distinguishing truth from other notions (like certainty, with which it is often confused), and ...(展开全部)

Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to dev...(展开全部)