TETRALOGUE by Timothy Williamson ( 9780198728887 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

TETRALOGUE
I'M RIGHT, YOU'RE WRONG

By:

Timothy Williamson

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Hardback

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0198728883

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9780198728887

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

12 February, 2015

Pages:

160

Description:

Four people with radically different views meet on a train and talk about what they believe. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right; then doubts creep in. Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore the philosophical debate over whether one point of view can be right and the other wrong. He invites the reader to decide.

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.

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