Riding to work in the morning has become commonplace. We ride everywhere. Physicians and public health officials plead with us to get out and walk, to get some exercise. People used to live within walking distance to the fields in which they worked, or they worked in shops attached to their homes. Now we ride to work, and nearly everywhere else. Which may seem an innocent enough point, and certainly not one on which we require instruction from the philosophers. But, truth be told, it has in fact precipitated a crisis in our understanding of truth.
Arguing that transport is an important metaphor for our uncertain, freewheeling postmodernism age, where any reality is possible, John D. Caputo explores the ways in which science, ethics, politics, art and religion all claim to offer us the ´truth´, and posits his own surprising theory of the many notions of truth.