LEADER 02866nam 2200481 450 001 9910820850303321 005 20230721040625.0 010 $a1-4411-6192-9 035 $a(CKB)4340000000253857 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5309605 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4948513 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4948513 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL851517 035 $a(OCoLC)1024261269 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000253857 100 $a20180315h20072006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhy truth matters /$fOphelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon, [England] ;$aNew York, New York :$cContinuum,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (202 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8264-7608-2 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aA?  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. 606 $aTruth 615 0$aTruth. 676 $a121 686 $a08.32$2bcl 700 $aBenson$b Ophelia$01625115 702 $aStangroom$b Jeremy 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820850303321 996 $aWhy truth matters$94123737 997 $aUNINA