What Is Truth?

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There will eventually have to be some kind of unification of the advanced technical work with the more traditional theories of what truth amounts to. There are some logicians who are now in a sort of building on task use initial suggestions to be serious. I predict that as time goes by we'll get more of a sense of how the technical, logical, mathematical, more scientific work relates to high level philosophical work. That will give us a better understanding of what truth is and what kind of role it plays for us. We haven't settled yet anyway.

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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