When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, soon to be elected Pope Benedict XVI, memorably warned of a looming "dictatorship of relativism" in 2005, he articulated what many conservative Catholics had long ...

Vol. 198, No. S2, Supplement 2: Special Issue on Truth: Concept Meets Property (February 2021), pp. S717-S733 (17 pages) A typical guiding principle of an account of truth is: “truth is objective,” or ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The ideology of moral relativism is a common theme among today’s college-aged youth. Phrases such ...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been edited by Roderick Chisholm and then, ...

My question is: When (and how) does intersubjective consensus become objective truth? Or does it ever? Arguably, sometimes a few experts have a better fix on 'true' value than do the masses (I know ...

The Trump administration’s war on the environment, which was accelerated this week with the president’s executive order to dismantle various environmental protections, is a product of the ...

The social and political upheavals of the past year have sparked renewed attacks on objectivity, a hallmark of American journalism. Does news coverage require a makeover? Or a reaffirmation of core ...

Lately, the local ABC News affiliate in Washington, D.C., has been running promotional spots with the well-worn tagline “speaking truth to power.” That is an odd slogan for a media outlet that can ...

Poynter conducted a study of 167 journalists and published the results Wednesday. The results are fascinating, and worth analyzing, as they seem to document a change in the way our industry views ...