The Problem of Truth: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Problem of Truth, credited to Herbert Wildon Carr, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Problem of Truth by Herbert Wildon Carr. Read in English by Steve C; Kingsnake; Johnny Wong; Walter Clark; Larry Wilson; Michael Knowles; Kyle Strand A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in unanalysed experience; in philosophy we examine the first principles and ultimate questions that concern conscious experience itself. The problem of truth is a problem of philosophy. It is not a problem of merely historical interest, but a present problem—a living controversy, the issue of which is undecided. Its present interest may be said to centre round the doctrine of pragmatism, which some fifteen years ago began to challenge the generally accepted principles of philosophy. In expounding this problem of truth, my main purpose has been to make clear to the reader the nature of a problem of philosophy and to disclose the secret of its interest. My book presumes no previous study of philosophy nor special knowledge of its problems. The theories that I have shown in conflict on this question are, each of them, held by some of the leaders of philosophy. In presenting them, therefore, I have tried to let the full dialectical force of the argument appear. I have indicated my own view, that the direction in which the solution lies is in the new conception of life and the theory of knowledge given to us in the philosophy of Bergson. If I am right, the solution is not, like pragmatism, a doctrine of the nature of truth, but a theory of knowledge in which the dilemma in regard to truth does not arise. But, as always in philosophy, the solution of one problem is the emergence of another. There is no finality. (Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Problem of Truth
• Author credits: Herbert Wildon Carr
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 2:54:03

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• science
• physics
• conflict
• problems
• errors

Track guide

1. 01 - Physics and Metaphysics — 15:26
2. 02 - Appearance and Reality — 9:09
3. 03 - The Logical Theories — 19:42
4. 04 - The Absolute — 27:24
5. 05 - Pragmatism — 29:36
6. 06 - Utility — 20:55
7. 07 - Illusion — 17:11
8. 08 - The Problem of Error — 27:12
9. 09 - Conclusion — 7:28

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