THE FORCE OF ALETHIC PLURALISM

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Strollo
Keyword(s):  
Alethic Pluralism

scholarly journals Ecumenical alethic pluralism

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Ferrari ◽  
Sebastiano Moruzzi
Keyword(s):  
Alethic Pluralism

AbstractEcumenical Alethic Pluralism (EAP) is a novel kind of alethic pluralism. It is ecumenical in that it widens the scope of alethic pluralism by allowing for a normatively deflated truth property alongside a variety of normatively robust truth properties. We establish EAP by showing how Wright’s Inflationary Arguments fail in the domain of taste, once a relativist treatment of the metaphysics and epistemology of that domain is endorsed. EAP is highly significant to current debates on the nature of truth insofar as it involves a reconfiguration of the dialectic between deflationists and pluralists.

SIMPLIFYING ALETHIC PLURALISM

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Alethic Pluralism

Holistic Alethic Pluralism: A Reformational Research Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-178
Author(s):  
Lambert Zuidervaart
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Propositional Truth ◽  
Alethic Pluralism ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Discursive Justification

This essay lays out a reformational research program on the idea of truth. First it describes challenges to the idea of truth in contemporary philosophy and gives reasons why a robust conception of truth is needed. Next it presents two overriding concerns – ontological and axiological – that such a conception should address. In addressing these concerns, a contemporary reformational approach will take up three sets of issues: relations between propositional truth and the discursive justification of truth claims; distinctions and connections between propositional and nonpropositional truth; and the sorts of cultural practices and social institutions within which truth occurs. My detailed response to these issues, as sketched in the last section of the essay, is to propose a holistic, normative, and structurally pluralist conception of truth, one that I call holistic alethic pluralism. Propositional truth is important but not all-important, and reformational philosophy needs to show why that is so.

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