Conceptualizing Truth

2022-08-01
Conceptualizing Truth

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  • Author: Kevin S. Krahenbuhl
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 116

It has been widely noted that society has moved away from seeing truth as an objective and, in some ways, important part of what it means to be educated. Varied conceptions of truth have existed and have been debated in the halls of academia for years but recently a shift has occurred in which truth has lost its status broadly as a virtue. In fact, in 2016, Oxford Dictionary declared “post-truth” as its international word of the year, defined as: ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’. Living in a world that is post-truth has direct implications on the education of a society’s youth. This book will examine several broad conceptions of truth and present them as truth profiles considering their implications for education. This survey will consider the role of truth as it relates to teaching and the act of being a teacher, engage with challenging questions about what curriculum will be learned and its implications for our understanding of truth and specific consideration is attended to the impacts that one’s conception of truth has for what they prioritize in the classroom, their instructional practice, and on learning itself. This book will take a focused look at the concept of truth and how varied conceptions of truth impact teaching and learning through theoretical, analytic, and practical examples.

Conceptualizing Truth

2001
Conceptualizing Truth

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  • Author: Michael Alan Casper
  • Publisher:
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

A Realist Conception of Truth

2018-10-18
A Realist Conception of Truth

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  • Author: William P. Alston
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 1501720554
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of truth. William P. Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia," Greek for truth). This idea holds that the truth value of a statement (belief or proposition) depends on whether what the statement is about is as the statement says it is. Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam are two of the prominent and widely influential contemporary philosophers whose anti-realist ideas Alston attacks.

Muḥammad ʿAbduh and His Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World

2019-01-04
Muḥammad ʿAbduh and His Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World

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  • Author: Ammeke Kateman
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004398384
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 298

In Muḥammad ʿAbduh and his Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World, Ammeke Kateman offers an account of Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Islamic Reformism in a globalizing and diverse world.

The Correspondence Theory of Truth

2021-11-29
The Correspondence Theory of Truth

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  • Author: D. J. O'Connor
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000479986
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 147

First published in 1975, The Correspondence Theory of Truth examines the simplest statements of empirical fact and establishes what we can mean when we say that such statements are true. In particular, the author has considered whether any or all of beliefs, sentences, statements, or propositions are properly said to be true or false. He proceeds to examine what we mean by the term ‘fact’ and what possible relation between facts and beliefs (or their linguistic embodiments) could be meant by the term ‘correspondence’. The second part of the book is a critical survey of important contemporary accounts of truth. The author examines Tarski’s semantic theory to see if it offers a satisfactory reconstruction of the essence of the traditional notion of correspondence, then J.L. Austin’s recent and famous version of the correspondence theory and some criticisms of it by Professor P. E. Strawson. A final chapter summarizes the viable content of the correspondence theory and suggests what problems about truth still remain for discussion if the theory is accepted. This book will be an essential read for students and scholars of Philosophy.

Analyzing and Conceptualizing the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing

2016-08-28
Analyzing and Conceptualizing the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing

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  • Author: Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FCAHS, FAAN
  • Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 0826161022
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 834

Delivers all information required for the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing course By embracing the major conceptual and theoretical contributions to nursing research that are outside of traditional nursing theory, this book serves as a vital resource for nurse researchers, and one that is indispensable for doctoral nursing students embarking on their dissertations. Containing the full complement of information required for the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing course for PhD programs, the text supports the foundational skills needed for excellence in research and scholarship. The book examines in depth the components of nursing theory and the types of theory used in nursing research and practice, and teaches students about the nature and use of concepts and the development of critical thinking skills that are essential for nursing research. This text contains information for developing concepts and middle-range theory, using a variety of qualitative research methods, broadening theoretical scope by linking middle-range theories, and moving knowledge toward certainty by use of evidence. It also illustrates the construction of frameworks for quantitative inquiry, exploring theory in mixed-method design and how theory develops knowledge. Each method includes a description of the methodological approach and examples of subsequent concept or theory development. The text includes several methods for the development of concepts, micro- and mid-range theories using qualitative research, and a discussion of the new trend of moving these qualitative theories toward practice-based evidence. Each section of the book contains practical examples and supplementary activities that encourage inquiry. An instructor’s manual is included for adopters of the text. Key Features: Teaches the significance of and foundations of perspective, concepts, qualitatively derived theory, quantitative frameworks, quantitative theoretical development, knowledge development from research, application, and evidence Focuses on current nursing research and how it is used in practice today Demonstrates the significant relationship between theory, research, knowledge development, evidence, and practice Promotes excellence in scholarship and research Includes an extensive instructor’s manual

International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies

2008
International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies

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  • Author: Stewart Clegg
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1412915155
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 2009

Describing the field, spanning individual, organisation, societal and cultural perspectives in a cross-disciplinary manner, this is the premier reference tool for students, lecturers, academics and practitioners to gather knowledge about a range of important topics from the perspective of organisation studies.

Daring to be Good

1998
Daring to be Good

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  • Author: Bat-Ami Bar On
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 9780415915557
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Conceptualizing Religion

2000
Conceptualizing Religion

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  • Author: Benson Saler
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 9781571812193
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316

How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.

Social Domains of Truth

2023-03-10
Social Domains of Truth

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  • Author: Lambert Zuidervaart
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000783391
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

Truth is in trouble. In response, this book presents a new conception of truth. It recognizes that prominent philosophers have questioned whether the idea of truth is important. Some have asked why we even need it. Their questions reinforce broader trends in Western society, where many wonder whether or why we should pursue truth. Indeed, some pundits say we have become a "post-truth" society. Yet there are good reasons not to embrace the cultural Zeitgeist or go with the philosophical flow, reasons to regard truth as a substantive and socially significant idea. This book explains why. First it argues that propositional truth is only one kind of truth—an important kind, but not all important. Then it shows how propositional truth belongs to the more comprehensive process of truth as a whole. This process is a dynamic correlation between human fidelity to societal principles and a life-giving disclosure of society. The correlation comes to expression in distinct social domains of truth, where either propositional or nonpropositional truth is primary. The final chapters lay out five such domains: science, politics, art, religion, and philosophy. Anyone who cares about the future of truth in society will want to read this pathbreaking book.