Perceiving Truth and Value

Interdisciplinary Discussions on Perception as the Foundation of Ethics

edited by David Andrew Gilland, Markus Muhling, Yvonne Forster and contributions by Wolfgang Drechsel, Thomas Fuchs, Tim Ingold, Roberta de Monticelli, Philipp Stoellger, Yvonne Forster and Markus Muhling

Book cover: Perceiving Truth and Value

Extent: 158 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft / Religion, Theology, and Natural Science

Series volume number: 33

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2019)

ISBN: 9783525573204

6.06 x 9.09 inches

Price: $68.00

In stock

The theme of this volume is the question of value-perception. It is discussed from different philosophical, psychiatric, theological, and anthropological perspectives. The thesis that unites all the papers is the recognition that we live in a relational, dynamic world, in which we primarily perceive, and that to dissolve values from facts is fundamentally misleading, both in theory as in life. The contributions are the outcome of an energetic conference in 2016 where the problems at stake were rigorously discussed. The results are presented here, and they have an explicit order and are strictly related. It opens with basic questions and observations, then critical opinions and objections come into play, after which the outline of a larger theory of value perception is presented, and at the end some concrete examples from material practices are drawn.

  • Contributions by Roberta de Monticelli
  • Contributions by Wolfgang Drechsel
  • Contributions by Yvonne Forster
  • Contributions by Thomas Fuchs
  • Contributions by Tim Ingold
  • Contributions by Markus Mühling
  • Contributions by Philipp Stoellger
  • Edited by Yvonne Forster
  • Edited by David Andrew Gilland
  • Edited by Markus Mühling