Kantian Pragmatism and the Habermasian Anti-Deflationist Account of Truth
Kantian Pragmatism and the Habermasian Anti-Deflationist Account of Truth

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I aim to characterize the pragmatist and anti-deflationist notions of truth. I take Habermas’s rather recent discussion (1999) and present the interpretation that his notion of truth relies on the reliabilist conception of knowledge rather than the internalist conception that defines knowledge as a justified true belief. Then, I show that my interpretation is consistent with Habermas’s project of weak naturalism. Finally, I draw some more general implications about the pragmatist notion of truth.

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