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Campbell, Richard

Truth and historicity / Richard Campbell - New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 - xi, 463 p. ; 24 cm.

Introduction: Our contemporary intellectual predicament -- Doing philosophy historically -- Truth as divine norm -- Timeless truth -- Truth and the divine intellect -- Doing the truth -- Truth and judgements -- The forms fracture -- Truth as the positive reality of ideas: Descartes's project -- Truth and the new way of ideas: the foundations of Locke's empiricism -- Truth in a contingent world. Leibniz's defence of contingent truth -- The emergence of historicity: The rise of historical consciousness -- The truth as a historical result: The emergence of the philosophy of history -- Individual existence and the appropriation of truth: Philosophy beyond Hegel -- Truth as a social construct: Marx's emphasis on practical activity -- Truth and the analysis of logical form: The linguistic conception of truth -- The historicity of truth -- Truth in action.

ISBN: 9780198239277‎0198239270

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Truth.Truth History.History Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: BD181 / .C23 1992