What is truth?

It is obvious that the concept of truth plays an important role in our cognition. It's all imbued with the spirit of chasing it. That is why we are so interested in the question of HOW to know the truth? Although the most important question remains in the shadows — WHAT is truth? It it that the theorists of truth are concerned about, and it is about this question that even professional philosophers know so little. In this episode, you will learn what the problems of the metaphysics of truth are, what are the classical and modern theories of truth, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.

Moderator: Anton Kuznetsov - Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Researcher at the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

Guests: Evgeny Loginov - Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, MCCS employee at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Date Compote".
Artem Yunusov is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, editor of the Date Compote magazine.

Timecode:

01:35 - What is the problem of truth? Why should she study?
04:22 - What is the practical significance of this problem?
06:56 - The block of classical theories of truth.
07:49 - Correspondent theory of truth or correspondence theory.
15:09 - Competitors of the correspondent theory of truth.
16:30 - Coherent theory of truth.
18:33 - Why does a coherent theory of truth lead to idealism?
22:12 - Epistemic theory of truth and Alpha Centauri.
25:19 - Problems of epistemic theory. 5 rubles, the extinction of dinosaurs and the far corners of the universe.
29:20 - The theory of identity. A thought is a fact.
32:35 - Summary of classical theories of truth.
33:22 - What are the modern theories of truth?
34:20 - Aletic primitivism.
35:49 - Deflationist theory of truth or deflation of truth.
38:02 - Anton is sitting on the couch, and Raskolnikov is killing his grandmother.
38:55 - Truth and Vladimir Vladimirovich.
41:43 - Aletic pluralism or plurality of truth.
44:40 - What views on the truth do the participants of this episode hold?

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