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  title info:
    title: Pragmatist truth in the post-truth age
    sub title: sincerity, normativity, and humanism
  name:
    name part: Pihlström, Sami
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Together with a group of Finnish colleagues, I have since 1999 been involved in writing and revising a series of philosophy textbooks for high-school students, published by a Finnish publishing house specializing in textbooks and non-fiction. In an introductory volume published in 2005, we included a brief discussion of "the pragmatist theory of truth" in the context of a more general exploration of the concept of truth. As textbooks usually, our books also include plenty of pictures, hopefully keeping their young readers alert. For the truth-theoretical section, we decided to use a photograph of Donald Trump, picturing him with his bestseller, How to Become Rich. In those years, Trump was not at all well known in my home country Finland, although he was already at that point a famous celebrity in the United States. I cannot remember who decided to use the picture in the book, I certainly had no idea whatsoever who this guy in the photograph was and I had never heard of him before. The point of the photograph was obvious. By using it we asked our prospective readers whether the sentences of Trump's books are true if they make their author (or, possibly, their reader) rich and if they in that sense pragmatically "work." Getting rich would then be their concrete "cash value."
  note: Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-237) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatism
  subject:
    topic: Truth
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Philosophy
  classification: B832 .P545 2021
  classification: 144/.3
  identifier: 9781316517703
  identifier: 1316517705
  identifier: 9781009048347
  identifier: 1009048341
  identifier: 9781009047142
  identifier: 2021022815
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210629
    record change date: 20220105171040.0
    record identifier: in00004361002