Williams Truth and Truthfulness

An Essay in Genealogy
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2514-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Problem

1. Truthfulness and Truth 1

2. Authority 7

3. Nietzsche 12

Chapter 2: Genealogy

1. Real and Fictional 20

2. Naturalism 22

3. The State of Nature Is Not the Pleistocene 27

4. How Can Fictions Help? 31

5. Shameful Origins 35

6. The Genealogy of Truthfulness 38

Chapter 3: The State of Nature: A Rough Guide

1. The Division of Labour 41

2. Plain Truths 45

3. Space, Time, and Indeterminacy 53

4. Value: The Story So Far 57

Chapter 4: Truth, Assertion, and Belief

1. Truth Itself 63

2. Assertions and Truth 66

3. Assertions and Knowledge 76

4. Beliefs and Truth 79

Chapter 5: Sincerity: Lying and Other Styles of Deceit

1. Value: An Internal Connection? 84

2. Trust 88

3. Trustworthiness in Speech 93

4. Dispositions of Sincerity 96

5. Fetishizing Assertion 100

6. Deserving the Truth 110

Chapter 6: Accuracy: A Sense of Reality

1. The Elaboration of Accuracy 123

2. Methods and Obstacles 126

3. Realismand Fantasy 135

4. Truthfulness and Freedom 141

Chapter 7: What Was Wrong with Minos?

1. Introduction 149

2. Thucydides 151

3. "Legendary Times" 155

4. The Past and the Truth 161

Chapter 8: From Sincerity to Authenticity

1. An Ambiguous Invention 172

2. Rousseau 173

3. Diderot and Rameau's Nephew 185

4. Steadying the Mind 191

5. Authenticity and Other People 199

Chapter 9: Truthfulness, Liberalism, and Critique

1. Truth and Politics 206

2. Democracy and Liberty 210

3. The Marketplace of Ideas 213

4. Critique 219

5. The Critical Theory Test 225

Chapter 10: Making Sense

1. Narratives 233

2. Structures and Explanations 241

3. Audiences 250

4. Needs 258

Endnote. The Vocabulary of Truth: An Example 271

Notes 279

Bibliography 309

Acknowledgements 321

Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Williams was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (1967-1979) and Provost of King's College. He held the Monroe Deutsch Professorship of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (1998-2000) and was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford (1990-2003). He was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford until his death in 2003.