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Truth, Time and History: A Philosophical Inquiry - Softcover

Sophie Botros

 
9781350105263: Truth, Time and History: A Philosophical Inquiry
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1350105260 ISBN 13: 9781350105263
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Synopsis

Truth, Time and History investigates the reality of the past by connecting arguments across areas which are conventionally discussed in isolation from each other.

Breaking the impasse within the narrower analytic debate between Dummett’s semantic anti-realists and the truth value link realists as to whether the past exists independently of our methods of verification, the book argues, through an examination of the puzzles concerning identity over time, that only the present exists. Drawing on Lewis’s analogy between times and possible worlds, and work by Collingwood and Oakeshott, and the continental philosopher, Barthes, the author advances a wholly novel proposal, as to how aspects of ersatz presentism may be combined with historical coherentism to uphold the legitimacy of discourse about the past.

In highlighting the role of historians in the creation and construction of temporality, Truth, Time and History offers a convincing philosophical argument for the inherence of an unreal past in the real present.

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About the Author

Sophie Botros is Honorary Research Associate at the School of Advanced Study, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK and author of Hume, Reason and Morality: A legacy of contradiction (2006).

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350105260
ISBN 13 
9781350105263
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288