Author Description

This book is my effort to try to understand truth. The technical term is epistemology-a big word that means something that is both easy and hard. A six year will understand "Did you eat that cookie?" But when it comes to trying to figure out abstractions such as cause, space, and time, we pull our chins and scratch our heads. I'm a philosopher without a portfolio and I write this for other philosophers without portfolios. We're all philosophers. Philosophy is part of who we are. We wonder, we muse, and we puzzle our way through life. And nothing is more exhilarating and challenging. I hope that this book gives you, if not answers, at least some more questions to ponder. Here are the chapters.Chapter One: What is Truth?Chapter Two: Philosophical TruthChapter Three: Theories of TruthChapter Four: Plato, Russell, and WittgensteinChapter Five: Factual TruthChapter Six: Scientific TruthChapter Seven: Mathematical and Logical TruthChapter Eight: Historical TruthChapter Nine: Consciousness and TruthChapter Ten: Artistic TruthChapter Eleven: Politics and TruthChapter Twelve: Justice and TruthChapter Thirteen: Religious TruthChapter Fourteen: Theistic TruthChapter Fifteen: Mystical TruthChapter Sixteen: Moral TruthChapter Seventeen: Everyday EpistemologyChapter Eighteen: Does the Universe have a Purpose?Chapter Nineteen: The Bird is On the Wing