Volume 1 What is Truth?

Published by De Gruyter 2001

Volume 1 What is Truth?

Part of the multi-volume work Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886665

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About this book

In this collection of original papers, leading international authorities turn their attention to one of the most important questions in theoretical philosophy: what is truth?

To arrive at an answer, two further questions need to be addressed in this context: 1) Does truth possess any essence, any inner nature? and 2) If so, what does this nature consist of?

The present discussion focuses on the antagonism between substantial or robust theories of truth, with correspondence theory taking the lead, and deflationist or minimalist views, which have been commanding an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Whereas substantial theories proceed from the premise that truth has an essence, and that therefore the objective is to discover this essence, the challenge presented by deflationism is to dispense with this very premise.

Author / Editor information

Richard Schantz, University of Siegen.

Reviews

"This work is a fascinating study of meaning and language as the fundamentally respresentational models of modernity are deconstructed to reveal the dynamism of rationality and creativity that links music, drama, philosphy and art. It is a thought-provoking and engaging interdisciplinary study that both affirms and transcends the modern categories of language and meaning."
Mary Beth Ingham in: Review of Metaphysics 4/2004

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I The Correspondence Theory
Truth : Concept and Property WILLIAM P. ALSTON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Truths and Truthmakers DAVID. M . ARMSTRONG Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Truth Through Thick and Thin RICHARD BOYD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
The Metaphysics of Deflationary Truth MICHAEL DEVITT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Truth, Meaning, and Reference RICHARD SCHANTZ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
II Deflationism Defended
Explanatory vs. Expressive Deflationism About Truth ROBERT B. BRANDOM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
On Locating Our Interest in Truth DOROTHY GROVER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Norms of Truth and Meaning PAUL HORWICH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
On Some Critics of Deflationism MICHAEL WILLIAMS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
III Deflationism Attacked
Minimalism and the Facts About Truth Marian David Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Disquotationalist Conceptions of Truth WOLFGANG KÜNNE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
The Truth about Truth COLIN MCGINN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Generalizations of Homophonic Truth-sentences PETER VAN INWAGEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
IV Tarski Challenged
An Argument Against Tarski's Convention Τ ANIL GUPTA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
What is Truth? Stay for an Answer JAAKKO HINTIKKA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
V Alternative Approaches
The Two Faces of the Concept of Truth MICHAEL DUMMETT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Truth: A Prolegomenon to a General Theory LORENZ Β. PUNTEL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
How Not to Misunderstand Peirce - A Pragmatist Account of Truth JAY F. ROSENBERG Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
A Problem about Truth RALPH C. S. WALKER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
An Indefinibilist cum Normative View of Truth and the Marks of Truth DAVID WIGGINS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2012
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 340

eBook

Published: August 18, 2011
ISBN: 9783110886665

Hardcover

Published: December 13, 2001
ISBN: 9783110164411