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  • Truth's Debt to Value
  • Written by author Weissman, David
  • Published by Yale University Press, 2006
  • Is something true because we believe it to be so or because it is true? How can a culturally bound community achieve scientific knowledge when values, attitudes, and desires shape its beliefs? In this book an eminent philosopher considers various schools
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Introduction 1
Ch. 1 Peirce and James 15
I Two Kinds of Pragmatism 16
II Jamesian Pragmatists 26
III Thought as the Venue for Action 30
IV World-Making 31
V Making a Social World 35
VI Some Notions of Truth 36
VII Power and Respect among World-Makers 39
VIII Peircian Realism 42
IX Putnam and Peirce 45
X Opposed Ideas about Reality and Knowledge 53
XI The Transcendental World-Maker 59
XII Must Truth be the Function of Value? 64
Ch. 2 Two Kinds of Thinking: Hypothesis and Construction 66
I Two Kinds of Thinking 66
II The Motive for World-Making 68
III Textualism 73
IV The Dependence of Existence on Truth 76
V World-Making as Psycho-centric 80
VI Thought as Hypothesis 84
VII Distinguishing Hypothesis from Construction 88
VIII Hypotheses are Conventional Signs 95
IX Hypotheses Motivated by Values 96
X Conclusion 99
Ch. 3 The Cognitive-Affective Basis for Value 101
I Spinoza on Desire 101
II Truths Valued for their Efficacy 102
III The Objective and Subjective Bases for Value 103
IV Vulnerability and Security 105
V Submission and Control: Self-Sufficiency and Dependence 105
VI Cognitive-Affective Balance 109
VII Pathologies 111
VIII Freudian Themes 113
IX Differences and Affinities among Cognitive-Affective Balances 114
X Pleasure 117
XI Holism 119
XII Hypothesis 121
Ch. 4 Truth 124
I Is Truth Simple and Separable? 124
II Truth as Coherence 128
III Truth as Identity 160
IV Truth as Redundancy 169
V Behaviorist Notions of Truth 186
VI Conclusion 197
Ch. 5 Truth as Correspondence 199
I The Rationale for Truth as Correspondence 199
II Abductive Inference 202
III A Preliminary Realist Ontology 208
IV Natural and Conventional Signs 210
V Truth as Correspondence 214
VI Thirteen Kinds of Truth-Claim 226
VII The Realist Ontology Amended 260
VIII A Final Elaboration of the Realist Ontology: Eternal Possibilities 263
IX The Thirteen Kinds of Truth-Claim, Again 272
X The Uses of the Coherence, Identity, and Redundancy Notions of Truth 285
XI Is the Argument for Correspondence Circular? 289
XII Paradoxes of Self-Reference 293
XIII Truth and Value 295
Ch. 6 Rational Attitude and Desire 297
I Truth Informs Desire 297
II Salient Truths 304
III Deliberation and its Subject Matters 306
IV Is Our Place in the World Fixed? 311
V Truth-Informed Attitudes and Desires as Determinants of Choice 312
VI Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Dewey on Truth and Choice 315
VII Truth's Debt to Value 329
Notes 331
Index 349


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