Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video Kevin deLaplante discusses Peter Boghossian's essay "Welcome to Culture War 2.0: The Great Realignment".

I focus attention on the way Boghossian defines one of the new cultural fault lines in terms of competing attitudes toward truth, objectivity and evidence. He calls it the "correspondence theory of truth", but I take issue with the label and the diagnosis (on this particular issue).

(americanmind.org/essays/welcome-to-culture-war-2-0/)

2:30 - Culture War 2.0
5:20 - The Correspondence Theory of Truth
11:30 - Philosophical Realism and Antirealism
13:20 - ... in Science
14:46 - ... in Ethics
16:38 - ... in Religion
21:00 - Does Science Need Philosophical Realism?
23:15 - Empiricist Antirealism About Science
28:35 - What Matters in the Defense of Science

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Peter Boghossian's homepage:
peterboghossian.com

Scientific Realism:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/

The Correspondence Theory of Truth:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/

Moral Realism:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/

Moral Antirealism:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/

Realism and Antirealism in Religion:
https://www.iep.utm.edu/religion/#SH1b