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Truth and the Capability of Learning

Author(s) -

HINCHLIFFE GEOFFREY

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

journal of philosophy of education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501

H-Index - 41

eISSN - 1467-9752

pISSN - 0309-8249

DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00559.x

Subject(s) - continuing education , library science , higher education , sociology , distance education , media studies , social science , pedagogy , medical education , political science , medicine , law , computer science

This paper examines learning as a capability, taking as its starting point the work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. The paper is concerned to highlight the relation between learning and truth, and it does so by examining the idea of a genealogy of truth and also Donald Davidson's coherence theory. Thus the notion of truth is understood to be not only built into the capability of learning but also translated across into other capabilities.

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