Truth and Provability—A Comment on Redhead

Truth and Provability— A Comment on Redhead

Michael Redhead’s recent argument aiming to show that humanly certifiable truth outruns provability is critically evaluated. It is argued that the argument is at odds with logical facts and fails. Michael Redhead puts forward, in his ambitious paper ‘Mathematics and the Mind’ (Redhead [2004]), a simple argument which aims to show that humanly certifiable truth outruns provability. Redhead’s arg...

Effects of Redhead Nest Parasitism on Mallards

Revealing Power in Truth; Comment on “Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health”

Jeremy Shiffman’s editorial appropriately calls on making all forms of power more apparent and accountable, notably productive power derived from expertise and claims to moral authority. This commentary argues that relationships based on productive power can be especially difficult to reveal in global health policy because of embedded notions about the nature of power and politics. Yet, it is e...

This Is My (Post) Truth, Tell Me Yours; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

Ramsey on Truth and Truth on Ramsey

It is widely held, to the point of being the received interpretation, that Frank Ramsey was the first to defend the so-called Redundancy Theory of Truth in his landmark article ‘Facts and Propositions’ (hereafter ‘FP’) of 1927. For instance, A.J. Ayer cited this article in the context of arguing that saying that p is true is simply a way of asserting p and that truth is not a real quality or re...