The necessity of errors
By: John Roberts
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781844677399
Subjects: Truth; Error
Description: Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In this text, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth and needs to be eradicated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259-272]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Error, truth and the subject; title: Error, scientific progress and veridical truth; title: Error, truth and psychoanalysis; title: Error, history and the political praxis; title: Error, reason and art.