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On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense
In David Wood & José Medina (eds.), Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions. Blackwell. pp. 7--14 (2005)
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Habermas's recent work in epistemology has been marked by a decisive rejection of his earlier epistemic conception of truth in which he understood truth as 'what may be accepted as rational under ideal conditions'. Arguing that no 'idealization of justificatory conditions' can do justice to both human fallibility and the unconditional nature of truth, he has attempted to develop a realistic conception of truth that severs any conceptual link between truth and justification while respecting the epistemic relevance of justification for (...) |
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Maks Del Mar’s book, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication, proposes a rich and generative conception of judicial imagination. This essay reflects upon and then deplo... |
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