Foucault on Truth
C.G. Prado's work has been dedicated to the narrowing of the divide between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy. His first book, Starting with Foucault: An Introduction to Genealogy (2005) is an analytically oriented overview of Michel Foucault's work, showing how it engages problems thought to be the sole province of Anglo-American philosophy. The current work delves into a particular problem, that of truth, and again seeks to show how Foucault's work answers to issues that would normally be seen from an Anglo-American perspective. In this case, Prado contrasts what he calls Foucault's discursive-currency view of truth from John Searle's relational conception of truth. He argues that although Foucault and Searle have diverging views of truth, they share a commitment to realism, that is, the view that there is a reality out there that affects our experience. The question is whether that reality is relevant to our conception of truth.