HOW DO WE COPE WITH TODAY’S PROBLEM OF TRUTH? Our instincts might incline us to cope through gathering with friendly minds to tell familiar stories about what truth is and how we are the ones who recognize it. But what if those stories turn out to illustrate that the problem of truth is longstanding, even when those stories are about objective truth, such as truth revealed by science?
One of the most famous of such stories is that of Giordano Bruno, the supposed martyr to science.1