Truth and the War on ErrorProf Huw Price (Cambridge University)
de Havilland Campus
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield AL10 9EU
United Kingdom
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This annual public lecture will be delivered by Professor Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
Wednesday 30 October 2013, 18:30 for 19:00, de Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire, AL10 9EU
Synopsis - Truth and the War on Error
The Culture Wars have given way to the Truth Wars, but this is just a new name for an ancient conflict. From Plato to Nagel, Protagoras to Rorty, philosophy's two great families have been feuding over the same patch of muddied ground for a hundred generations. Absolutists versus relativists, realists versus idealists, platonists versus pragmatists: the slogans swing to and fro, but both sides are well-entrenched, and the frontlines rarely move.
In this talk Huw Price introduces this conflict through the eyes of his Cambridge predecessor, Simon Blackburn, whose book Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed offers an engaging mix of embedded journalism and irenic road-mapping. However, Price argues that Blackburn's peace plan has a fatal flaw. He offers an alternative peace proposal, which has the advantage of being sufficiently even-handed to be rejected by both sides.
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