Kantian Pragmatism and the Habermasian Anti-Deflationist Account of Truth
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Keywords

pragmatism
truth
deflationism
consensus theory of truth
reliabilism
weak naturalism
Habermas

Abstract

DOI: http://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxiv2.07

In this paper, I aim to characterize the pragmatist and anti-deflationist notions of truth. I take Habermas’s rather recent discussion (1999) and present the interpretation that his notion of truth relies on the reliabilist conception of knowledge rather than the internalist conception that defines knowledge as a justified true belief. Then, I show that my interpretation is consistent with Habermas’s project of weak naturalism. Finally, I draw some more general implications about the pragmatist notion of truth.

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