Problem of Truth

The problem of truth has haunted philosophy for centuries, but around 1910 it exploded into a living controversy that still shapes how we think today. Herbert Wildon Carr uses this ancient question as a lens to reveal what philosophy actually is: not a science that accepts experience at face value, but a discipline that interrogates the foundations of consciousness itself. His target is pragmatism, the revolutionary doctrine that challenged everything traditional philosophy held sacred, and he guides the uninitiated reader through this debate with remarkable clarity. Carr's purpose is twofold: to make clear why philosophical problems resist the neat solutions that scientific questions yield, and to show why the question of truth matters to anyone who thinks. What is truth, really? Not a dictionary definition, but the deeper problem of how our minds grasp reality, and whether that grasp can ever be secure. This book presumes no prior philosophy training, it simply asks you to think carefully about thinking.