The question "What is truth?" is perhaps the hardest one ever posed. Science is based on the correspondence theory of truth, namely, that truth corresponds to reality. But others say that truth is ...

Back in 1973, philosophers P. F. Strawson and Gareth Evans recorded a 16mm film of a conversation on the topic of truth for The Open University. Later discovering that film, Huw Price--now Bertrand ...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. –Thoreau Truth tends to lead to successful action. In that much, truth has instrumental value. But truth also has intrinsic value. Given the ...

The basic definition of "truth," according to Merriam-Webster's handy dictionary, is "the body of real things, events and facts." But what does that actually mean? Next week, On Point will air a ...

Lewis Baldwin is a Vanderbilt University professor emeritus of religious studies. Lewis Baldwin was surprised to find little scholarship on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of ...