160. Theories of Truth, Part 2 | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2019-01-02

We default to correspondence theory to explain how truth works...could that be a relic of Enlightenment values?

-Links for the Curious-

These videos on theories of truth are both largely due to Simon Blackburn's amazing book "On Truth," which I highly recommend! It was recommended to me by my friend Mark Linsenmayer, whose philosophy podcast "The Partially Examined Life" is the best damned philosophy podcast on the internet.

SEP - Truth (Glansberg, 2018) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/

SEP - Richard Rorty (Ramberg, 2007) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/

SEP - The Deflationary Theory of Truth (Stoljar, 2010) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-deflationary/