Contents

Preface

Lambert Zuidervaart

Introduction

Allyson Carr and Matthew J. Klaassen

PART ONE TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE

1 How Not to Be an Anti-realist: Habermas, Truth, and Justification

Lambert Zuidervaart

2 Radical Constructivism, Education, and Truth as Life-Giving Disclosure

Clarence W. Joldersma

3 The Jelly and the Shot: Laying down the Law for Pragmatism in Quantum Physics

Matthew Walhout

4 Cognitive Diversity, Conceptual Schemes, and Truth

Olaf Ellefson

PART TWO TRUTH AND POLITICS

5 Exposure and Disclosure: The Risk of Hermeneutical Truth in Democratic Politics

Darren R. Walhof

6 Truthfulness, Discourse, and the Problem of Pluralism

Adam Smith

7 A Comparative Ethics Approach to the Concept of Bearing Witness: A Practice in Christian Theology and Journalism

Amy D. Richards

8 Narrative Truth in Canadian Historical Fiction: In between Veracity and Imagination

John Van Rys

PART THREE TRUTH AND ETHICS

9 Truth, Truthfulness, and the I-Self Relationship

Gerrit Glas

10 Does Truth Matter to Ethics? Kierkegaard, Ethics, and the Subjectivity of Truth

Jay A. Gupta

11 Theories of Concepts and Moral Truth

John J. Park

12 Educating for Truthfulness

Doug Blomberg

PART FOUR TRUTH AND RELIGION

13 Truth Unveiled: Balthasar and the Contemplation of Christian Truth

Gill K. Goulding

14 Truth as “Being Trued”: Intersections between Ontological Truth in Aquinas and the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

Pamela J. Reeve

15 Bedevilling Truth: “What Have I to Do with Thee?”

Jeffrey Dudiak

16 A Concept of Artistic Truth Prompted by Biblical Wisdom Literature

Calvin Seerveld

Bibliography

Contributors

Index