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True to Life: Why Truth Matters
Skeptical Inquirer, Jan-Feb, 2005
True to Life: Why Truth Matters. Michael P. Lynch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004. 205 pp., $27.95, hardcover. Michael Lynch argues that truth matters, in both our personal and professional lives. Lynch examines theses including that truth matters, that truth is a worthy goal of inquiry, and that it is good to believe what is true.
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The dust jacket asks, "Why does truth matter, when politicians so easily sidestep it and intellectuals scorn it as irrelevant?" Lynch, an associate professor of philosophy, thankfully avoids the stultifying jargon and impenetrable prose that sometimes accompanies philosophical books like these. It is written for the intelligent lay reader interested in examining the basis for some (apparently) self-evident truths about truth. Lynch's discussion is lucid (if a bit dry in places), and he tackles postmodern philosophers who suggest that truth is subjective and irrelevant. A good companion to Sissela Bok's book Lying. True to Life is an insightful and timely examination of the ultimate basis for skepticism: that what is true matters.
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