{"product_id":"book-i94p","title":"Truth \u0026 Generosity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't matter whether you're conservative or liberal, religious or skeptical, the very fact you are able to understand the words you're reading right now-that we are all able to communicate with each other using language-means we must share a vast body of beliefs. While language may shape the way we think about the world to some small extent, it makes much more sense to say truth shapes language to a very large extent. That's the central argument of this book: \u003cem\u003eTruth is the condition that makes language possible.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by Donald Davidson's philosophy, Weiner takes a bold philosophical argument against linguistic relativism and 'alternative realities' to its limit, and he does so in an direct style that's astonishingly easy-to-read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEAL WEINER taught philosophy at Marlboro College from 1970-2007. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the University of Chicago and a Danforth Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where he did his doctoral work on Plato.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt. John's College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Texas at Austin, Ph.D.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49407729991984,"sku":"BDi94p","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/i94p-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773575703","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-i94p","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}