Does Truth Matter?

Talks:
Wed 17 May 2006.

Truth has become a nebulous, even unfashionable notion in our contemporary society. Relativism and postmodernism have undermined our belief in the importance and certainty of truth.

On what basis can we now investigate the validity of claims by our politicians – the existence of weapons of mass destruction, for example? Is there still a moral imperative to tell the truth?

Speakers: Simon Blackburn, professor of Philosophy at Cambridge; Stephen Law, lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College and editor of the journal Think; Nick Cohen, journalist for the Observer, New Statesman and New Humanist. Chair: Jeremy Stangroom, author and co-editor of Philosophers’ Magazine.

Venue(s) : Nash Room.

Wed 17 May 19:00 Nash Room

Full Price : £8.
Concession : £7.
ICA Members : £6.

http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14898