In his 1987 paper “Truth or Consequences,” Dan Brock describes a deep conflict between the goals and virtues of philosophical scholarship public policymaking: whereas former is concerned with search for truth, latter must primarily be promoting good consequences. When philosophers are engaged in policymaking, he argues, they shift their primary goal from truth to consequences—but this has both ...

Abstract This paper proposes a theoretical means of dealing with different perspectives on truth that cannot be resolved into unified single perspective. Through the development dialectical understanding truth, knowledge and justification, three can differentiated multitude interrelations. The focus this will via its relationship to knowledge. Both thereby conceived as dynamic revisable. Truth ...