Three Interpretations of Habermas’s Theory of Truth

Three Interpretations of Habermas’s Theory of Truth

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• cognitive structures, Habermas, immanent transcendence, theory of action, theory of truth, validity concept.

Notes:

• Habermas, Jürgen. “What is Universal Pragmatics?” In Communication and the Evolution of Society, by Jürgen Habermas and translated by Thomas McCarthy, 1-68. London: Heinemann, 1979.

  Habermas, Jürgen. The Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 2. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987.

  Habermas, Jürgen. Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1999.

  Habermas, Jürgen. “Richard Rorty’s Pragmatic Turn”. In On the Pragmatics of Communication, by Jürgen Habermas, translated and edited by Maeve Cooke, 343-382. Cambridge: Polity, 2002.

  Habermas, Jürgen. Truth and Justification. Translated by Barbara Fultner. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003.

  Levine, Steven. “Habermas, Kantian Pragmatism, and Truth”. Philosophy and Social Criticism 36, no. 6 (2010): 677-95. Doi.org/10.1177/0191453710366216.

  Mithen, Steven. The Prehistory of the Mind. London: Phoenix, 1998.

  Seemann, Alex. “Lifeworld, Discourse, and Realism: On Habermas’s Theory of Truth”. Philosophy and Social Criticism 30, no. 4 (2004): 503-14. Doi.org/10.1177/0191453704044041.

  Sperber, Dan. “Metarepresentation in Evolutionary Perspective”. In Metarepresentation: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, ed. Dan Sperber, 117-137. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

  Stringer, Chris. The Origin of Our Species. London: Penguin, 2012.

  Strydom, Piet. “On the Cognitive Order of Society: Radicalising the Ontological Turn in Critical Theory”. Unpublished manuscript (2013). URL https://www.academia.edu/5552407/.

  Strydom, Piet. “The Problem of Limit Concepts in Habermas: Toward a Cognitive Approach to the Cultural Embodiment of Reason”. Philosophical Inquiry 42, no. 1-2 (2018): 168-189. [No DOI available].

  Strydom, Piet. “Critical Theory and Cognitive Sociology”. In Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology, eds. Wayne H. Brekhus and Gabe Ignatow, 42-64. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

  Strydom, Piet. “On Habermas’s Differentiation of Rightness from Truth: Can an Achievement Concept Do without a Validity Concept? Philosophy and Social Criticism 45, no. 5 (2019). 555-74. Doi.org/10.1177/0191453718816346.

  Strydom, Piet. “The Critical Theory of Society: From its Young-Hegelian Core to its Key Concept of Possibility”. European Journal of Social Theory 26, no. 2 (2023): 153-179. Doi.org/10.1177/13684310221130914.

  Wilson, Edward O. The Social Conquest of Earth. New York and London: Liveright, 2012.

  Wynn, Thomas and Frederick Coolidge. “The Implications of the Working Memory Model for the Evolution of Modern Cognition”. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2011). Doi.org/10.4061/2011/741357.