What Is the Role of Truth in Our Conceptual Mental Lives?

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The deflationists seem to be missing out a key role of like truth in our conceptual mental lives if they don't have that. The point of inquiry is to get true beliefs rather than false beliefs. And so the worry about the faciness is kind of it's account of the role of truth in our lives, these communicative roles,. These technical roles isMissing out a key thing and explaining that key thing, you'll have to invoke something more substantial about what truth is to explain why we care about getting it in the first place.

Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth — what it is, and how to get there — can be a little sloppy at times. Philosophy to the rescue! I had a very ambitious conversation with Liam Kofi Bright, starting with what we mean by “truth” (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary approaches), and then getting into the nitty-gritty of how we actually discover it. There’s a lot to think about once we take a hard look at how science gets done, how discoveries are communicated, and what different kinds of participants can bring to the table.

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Liam Kofi Bright received his Ph.D. in Logic, Computation and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently on the faculty of the London School of Economics in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and the Scientific Method. He has worked on questions concerning peer review and fraud in scientific communities, intersectionality, logical empiricism, and Africana philosophy. He is well-known on Twitter as the Last Positivist.

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