[pt] Para além de todo esforço crítico, procuramos no presente trabalho o que há de assertivo no pensamento de Nietzsche, situando a especificidade de sua intervenção filosófica no valor concedido à arte enquanto criação voltada à vida. Com o declarado interesse de fazer-se médico da civilização moderna, ele propõe um pensamento no qual verdades não mais se opõem a mentiras; uma realidade onde aparências são condição para as essências; e um homem cujos artifícios podem fazer parte da natureza. Exploramos essa abordagem extramoral da experiência sugerida pelo filósofo, enquanto teorias que acabam por sustentar e impulsionar sua máxima na atividade criadora. Desta maneira, bucamos delinear as guinadas que sofrem a noção de verdade e a busca por essa verdade, quando abordadas para além de oposições transcendentais. Em meio à sua batalha contra o dogmatismo metafísico, Nietzsche irá buscar uma nova maneira para afirmar valores. / [en] Beyond all his critical efforts, in this paper we search for what is assertive in Nietzsche s thought, placing the specificity of his philosophical intervention on the value granted to art, thought of as creation over life itself. With the declared interest of acting as a healer to modern civilization, he proposes a manner of thinking in which truths are no longer opposed to lies; a reality where appearences are the condition to essences; and a conception of man whose artifices can belong to nature. We explore this extramoral approach of experience suggested by the philosopher as theories that endorse and promote his praise of creative activity. Thereby, we try to outline the changes surrounding his notion of truth and the manners of search for this truth, now approached beyond transcendental oppositions. Amidst his battle against metaphysical dogmatism, Nietzsche will propose a new way of affirming values.

This thesis explores the experience of telling and constructing truths and lies, and receiving and interpreting truths and lies within the context of contemporary culture. This thesis both augments and is founded in the production of the digital video In the Absence Of, itself an exploration of truth, self and identity.

This Master's Thesis addresses the question, "Was William Edward Burghardt DuBois a pragmatic philosopher in the strictest sense?" In answering the question this writer has had to refer to the traditions of philosophic speculation as stated in coherence, correspondence, and pragmatic theories. The historical trends of past civilizations, which were brought to bear upon the conditions of economies and politics faced by the nations of the Renaissance period, and which lead directly to the New World slave trade of the fifteenth century, had to be examined. In addition the history of the Afro-American upon the North American continent had to be researched. The need to address these wide ranging areas is based upon my claim that the statement made in 1900, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colorline," is DuBois' evaluation of information gathered in studying periods of world civilizations. Western European societal growth, and the history of the Black man.

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When it comes to truth for Theodor W. Adorno, art and philosophy are closely entangled. Due to their contradictory qualities, neither is self-sufficient when it comes to gaining true knowledge, but require each other’s capabilities. However, even though Adorno insists on the special bond between art and philosophy, his aim is not that they should be synthesized into one and the same method. This is because it is not their different strengths that hold their true potential, but their weaknesses. “The True is the whole,” writes Hegel, but this idea is what gets shattered by Adorno when he insists on the respective inabilities of art and philosophy to obtain absolute truth, as a consequence of the suppression of the non-identical held up by identity thinking. By following Adorno’s reading of Hegel, I will in this paper instead suggest that we consider truth as broken. My aim is to show how such an understanding can align with Adorno’s argument that truth is in the object, outside of subjectivity, while also acknowledging the socio-historical mediation of it. Broken parts, seen through the respective deficiencies in art and philosophy, could then be understood as being true, as we dismiss wholeness as a false demand.

For the healthcare provider, disclosing a pediatric patient's difficult diagnosis in the form of an acute or chronic condition to the parents is a challenging task. Healthcare providers often feel unprepared when relaying the news of such diagnosis, and the parents feel equally unprepared upon receiving it (Pririe, 2012). This systematic literature review examined the various communication techniques used in the past, and the techniques' effectiveness in increasing parental satisfaction when first learning of the child's diagnosis. A scarce number of studies related to the most effective techniques were found in the literature, and even fewer were found that evaluated the techniques presented. Overall, three of the most commonly occurring communication themes identified from the studies were: 1) Parents desired privacy during the disclosure and wanted a support system present (mostly a spouse); 2) The diagnosis must be given as soon as the healthcare provider suspected it, and; 3) The healthcare provider must emphasize the positive characteristics of the pediatric patient, as well as the patient's future with the diagnosis. Both parents and providers agreed that further research is needed to identify effective communication techniques used during disclosure. The aim of the research should be to identify the most effective means of communication to increase parental satisfaction. Furthermore, all healthcare providers need collaborative and interdisciplinary training in delivering a difficult diagnosis to increase parental satisfaction.

The Ends of Smaller Worlds is a collection of short stories set in Indiana. The preface is about the representation of the information age using elements of dirty realism and Gothic fiction.

After countering claims that truth cannot be a norm of belief, this dissertation argues that truth’s normativity is grounded in personhood. It does so by attending to the fact that truth is a norm for the human person, and to the relationships between the human person and the objective goodness and value of truth. The dissertation develops this argument by critically appropriating writings of Thomas Aquinas and representatives of twentieth-century personalism on the relationship between truth and the human person. The dissertation’s initial chapters rebut objections (1) that the involuntariness of belief rules out any possibility of norms of belief, (2) that truth cannot be a norm of belief because truth is unable to provide guidance in determining what to believe, and (3) that it is incompatible with other norms of belief such as justification. It rebuts the first objection by challenging its general account of belief and outlining an alternative account. It responds to the second argument by criticizing its understanding of guidance as overly narrow and sketching an alternative notion of guidance-by-value. It counters the third objection by arguing for the primacy of the truth-norm. The dissertation then takes up the question of what grounds the truth-norm. Chapter Three surveys recent accounts, drawing from its survey a set of desiderata for any satisfactory account. Chapter Four begins the dissertation’s account of the normativity of truth. Working from Dietrich von Hildebrand’s conception of objective goods, it argues that truth is an objective good for the person by showing how deeply interwoven truth is with friendship. Given that friendship is an objective good for the person, and that truth stands in certain intimate relationships to friendship, it follows that truth is an objective good for the person. Chapter Five rounds out the argument. The objective goodness of truth entails that truth is a value. Values are normative for persons. Therefore, truth is normative for the human person. This chapter defends the claim that values are normative for persons by elucidating the dependency of the realization of personhood—in several of its various dimensions—on value-grasping and value-realizing acts.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRC) outlined 94 Calls to Action (CTA) that are essential to address reconciliation in Canada (TRC, 2015). Five (Calls 87-91) of those CTA were related to sport. One of those Calls, Call 90, emphasized the need for national sport organizations (NSOs) in Canada to create inclusive policies and programming with an emphasis on anti-racism awareness and training. Similarly, safe sport in Canada was created as an initiative to address maltreatment, discrimination, and harassment in sport. In 2019, the federal government mandated NSOs to create safe sport policies and programming. However, there has been no such mandate to implement the TRC's CTA. The TRC's CTA 90 and safe sport have been treated as separate issues and there has been no effort to see how these two initiatives could inform each other. Through the use of Bacchi's (2012) "What's the Problem Represented to be" approach and applying a settler colonial lens to my analysis, I investigated how NSO staff and safe sport policymakers are constructing safe sport in Canada and if that included addressing anti-Indigenous racism. Through 10 semi-structured interviews from participants representing a total of eight NSOs as well as archival research of safe sport and equity, diversity, and inclusion policies, I found that the participants and the policies produced three discourses: 1) Anti-Indigenous racism does not require a separate policy; 2) policies alone are insufficient: Safe sport education and resources are needed to address anti-Indigenous racism; 3) the TRC's CTA are not being treated as a priority by Sport Canada but NSOs want to act in consultation with Indigenous organizations. These discourses provide insights into how NSOs are constructing safe sport in Canada, leaving anti-Indigenous racism unproblematized, and thus furthering settler colonialism.

In this episode, we introduce one of the most important tools in the description of logic operations: the truth table. Not only do truth tables allow us to describe a logic operation, they provide a means for us to prove logical equivalence.