Truth in Philosophy.

Abstract

Offers an overview of the problem of truth from antiquity to the present, discussing Greek and early-modern philosophy, Nietzsche, James, Heidegger, Derrida, Wittgenstein, and Foucault. The argument is organized around two philosophical questions: What is wrong with a correspondence theory of truth, and (Nietzsche's question) what good is truth, why its claim to a superior value? The author identifies and attacks the assumptions of correspondence, presenting a powerful argument for the immanence of truth in practice. The book is clearly and carefully written, and should equally interest philosophers of analytic or continental persuasion.