02866nam 2200481 450 991079543550332120230721040625.01-4411-6192-9(CKB)4340000000253857(MiAaPQ)EBC5309605(MiAaPQ)EBC4948513(Au-PeEL)EBL4948513(CaONFJC)MIL851517(OCoLC)1024261269(EXLCZ)99434000000025385720180315h20072006 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWhy truth matters /Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom1st ed.London, [England] ;New York, New York :Continuum,2007.©20061 online resource (202 pages)Includes index.0-8264-7608-2 The antinomies of truth -- Truth, doubt and the philosophers -- The truth radicals -- The social construction of truth -- Politics, ideology and evolutionary biology -- Wishful thinking and epistemological confusion -- Institutions, academe and truth -- Why truth matters.  Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in allits forms and traditions. Yet in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to assortedpolitical and ideological agendas, along with the rise of relativism, postmodernism and pseudoscience in academia, led to a decline both of truth as a serious subject, and an intellectual tradition thatbegan with the Enlightenment. Why Truth Matters is a timely, incisive and entertaining look at how and why modern thought and culture lost sight of the importance of truth. It is also an eloquent and inspiring argument for restoring truth to its rightful place. Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson, editors of the successful butterfliesandwheels website-itself established to "fight fashionable nonsense"-identify and debunk such senselessness, and the spurious claims made for it, in all its forms. Their account ranges over religious fundamentalism, Holocaust denial, the challenges of postmodernism and deconstruction, the wilful misinterpretation of evolutionary biology, identity politics and wishful thinking. Why Truth Matters is both a rallying cry for the enlightened vision and an essential read for anyone who's everbeen bored, frustrated, bewildered or plain enraged by the worst excesses of the fashionable intelligentsia.TruthTruth.12108.32bclBenson Ophelia1562019Stangroom JeremyMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795435503321Why truth matters3861054UNINA