Truth and Social Reality - A Metaphysical Inquiry

This volume argues that there are truths about our social world and that those truths are produced by that social world. It looks at questions around truth, reality, objectivity, social construction, and relativism, and provides an account of how gender, race, class, and disability are socially constructed.

About the author

Aaron M. Griffith is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Before teaching at William & 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 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Erkenntnis, and other journals.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron M. Griffith, Aaron M. (Associate Professor of Philoso Griffith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 25.10.2025
• EAN: 9780198948452
• ISBN: 978-0-19-894845-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice