Habermas: reference, truth and motivations of the postmetaphysical thinking

Authors

  • José Fernando García Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano

Abstract

The article discusses the last position of Habermasonreference, inspired by Putnam's work, showing that, however, its departs from it in some fundamental respects, and this is explained by the need to support a concept of context-independent truth, that is central for his notion of a formal pragmatics. But with this, he is away from the post-metaphysical thinking, whichaccording to him, would characterize our age.

Keywords:

truth, reference, conceptual relativism, pluralism, post-metaphysical thinking, Habermas, Putnam