1.

Record Nr.

UNICASPUV0106868

Titolo

15.6: Cronache senesi / a cura di Alessandro Lisini e Fabio Iacometti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna, : N. Zanichelli, 1931-1939

Descrizione fisica

2 v. (XXXVI, 944 p. complessive, [15] carte di tav.) : ill. ; 31 cm

Soggetti

Siena - 1202-1483

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Volume 1 composto dai fascicoli 249, 252, 263, 268, 275, 282, v. 2 dai fascicoli 292, 300, 307, 319

Opera incompleta a causa dell'interruzione della pubblicazione.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807825703321

Autore

Williamson Timothy

Titolo

Tetralogue : I'm right, you're wrong / / Timothy Williamson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-877717-5

0-19-104469-5

0-19-104468-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

100

Soggetti

Dogmatism

Philosophy

Thought and thinking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. The perils of peacemaking -- Part II. The terrors of truth -- Part III. The advantages of arrogance -- Part IV. The vices of value.



Sommario/riassunto

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 w