When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, soon to be elected Pope Benedict XVI, memorably warned of a looming "dictatorship of relativism" in 2005, he articulated what many conservative Catholics had long ...

Vol. 198, No. S2, Supplement 2: Special Issue on Truth: Concept Meets Property (February 2021), pp. S717-S733 (17 pages) A typical guiding principle of an account of truth is: “truth is objective,” or ...

I was disappointed by Michael P. Lynch’s “Who Cares About the Truth?” (The Chronicle Review, September 10). The essay seemed to me to be both misguided and wasted on your audience. I am confident that ...

My question is: When (and how) does intersubjective consensus become objective truth? Or does it ever? Arguably, sometimes a few experts have a better fix on 'true' value than do the masses (I know ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The ideology of moral relativism is a common theme among today’s college-aged youth. Phrases such ...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been edited by Roderick Chisholm and then, ...

The Trump administration’s war on the environment, which was accelerated this week with the president’s executive order to dismantle various environmental protections, is a product of the ...

Lately, the local ABC News affiliate in Washington, D.C., has been running promotional spots with the well-worn tagline “speaking truth to power.” That is an odd slogan for a media outlet that can ...

I must admit that the term “personal truth” was alien to me when I first heard it a decade or so ago. My education held truth to be objective and independent of personal beliefs. Truth was regarded as ...