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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, Timothy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dogmatism.

Philosophy.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Part I. The perils of peacemaking

Part II. The terrors of truth

Part III. The advantages of arrogance

Part IV. The vices of value.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-877717-5

0-19-104469-5

0-19-104468-7

OCLC:

899007217