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Truth and social reality : a metaphysical inquiry /

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This volume argues that there are truths about our social world and that those truths are produced by that social world. It looks at questions around truth, reality, objectivity, social construction, and relativism, and provides an account of how gender, race, class, and disability are socially cons...

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Main Author: Griffith, Aaron M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Truth > Social aspects.
Social epistemology.
Reality.
Vérité > Aspect social.
Épistémologie sociale.
Réalité.
PHILOSOPHY.
Political.
Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Reality
Social epistemology
Truth > Social aspects
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Truth and truthmaking
  • Truthmaking and social ontology
  • Realism and social reality
  • Socially constructed truthmakers I : grounding
  • Socially constructed truthmakers II : truthmaking
  • Social contexts
  • Relativism, contextualism, and objectivity
  • Vagueness and social truth
  • Truth, power, and justice/