Tetralogue : I'm right, you're wrong

✍ Scribed by Williamson, Timothy

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 153
Edition: First edition
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep in.

In a tradition going back to Plato, Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore questions about truth and falsity, and knowledge and belief. Is truth always relative to a point of view? Is every opinion fallible? Such ideas have been used to combat dogmatism and intolerance, but are they compatible with taking each opposing point of view seriously? This book presupposes no prior acquaintance with philosophy, and introduces its concerns in an accessible and light-hearted way. Is one point of view really right and the other really wrong? That is for the reader to decide

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part I. The perils of peacemaking --
Part II. The terrors of truth --
Part III. The advantages of arrogance --
Part IV. The vices of value.

✦ Subjects

Philosophy. Opinion (Philosophy) -- Popular works. Logic -- Popular works. Logic. Opinion (Philosophy)

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