{"product_id":"truth-and-social-reality-a-metaphysical-inquiry-hardcover","title":"Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAaron M. Griffith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTruth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry \u003c\/em\u003epresents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the world. It focuses on the construction of human social kinds like gender, race, class, and disability. The book offers novel accounts of social construction, realism, social kind pluralism, social context, the context-dependency of social truth, and social vagueness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOverall, \u003cem\u003eTruth and Social Reality\u003c\/em\u003e presents a realist picture of the social world on which there are objective truths about the way things are in the social world. Social truth is not socially constructed, despite being grounded in a socially constructed reality. The theory it provides nonetheless captures the contingency, alterability, and vagueness of the social world and the context dependency of social truth. The book also addresses the relationships between truth, power, and justice. It argues that truth itself is not a tool of oppression, as some maintain. Rather, truth and truth-telling play an essential role in upending oppression and achieving justice. \u003cem\u003eTruth and Social Reality\u003c\/em\u003e rebuts the cynicism of the \"post-truth\" age by defending the possibility and value of social truth.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron M. Griffith, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Philosophy, College of William \u0026amp; Mary\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAaron M. Griffith is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at William \u0026amp; Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Before teaching at William \u0026amp; Mary, he held a teaching position at Central Michigan University. His research and teaching are on truth, truthmaking, grounding, social ontology, the philosophy of race, and nineteenth-century German philosophy. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Erkenntnis\u003c\/em\u003e, and other journals.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52725730705715,"sku":"9780198948452","price":178.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/wScdomBX3o9780198948452.webp?v=1763719003","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/truth-and-social-reality-a-metaphysical-inquiry-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}