Realism And The Correspondence Theory Of Truth
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| Author | : Richard A. Fumerton |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780742512832 |
Defending a realism about truth, Fumerton (philosophy, U. of Iowa) argues that the most plausible version of realism is the correspondence theory of truth, and that only by including in one's ontology the critical relation of correspondence between truth bearers and truth makers can one avoid an implausible metaphysics of possibilia in a realist analysis of falsehood. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Richard Fumerton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780742512849 |
This book is a defense of realism about truth. The author argues that the most plausible version of realism is a correspondence theory of Truth that takes thought as the primary bearer of truth value. Furthermore, after distinguishing realism about Truth from various sorts of metaphysical realisms, the author suggests that one can embrace much of anti-realist rhetoric from within the framework of a variety of plausible claims about the way in which minds do and must represent the world.
| Author | : William P. Alston |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2018-10-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1501720554 |
One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of truth. William P. Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia," Greek for truth). This idea holds that the truth value of a statement (belief or proposition) depends on whether what the statement is about is as the statement says it is. Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam are two of the prominent and widely influential contemporary philosophers whose anti-realist ideas Alston attacks.
| Author | : Patrick Greenough |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780199288885 |
Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.
| Author | : Joshua Rasmussen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2014-06-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107057744 |
This book defends the correspondence theory of truth by developing a new account of the relationship between truth and reality.
| Author | : Michael Devitt |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 1997-01-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780691011875 |
In a provocative thesis, philosophy professor Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world and for a corresponding notion of truthcontrary to the opinions of anti-realists such as Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and others. This second edition includes a new Afterword by the author.
| Author | : Tim Button |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2013-06-27 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0199672172 |
Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and we cannot hope to say exactly where.
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| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
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| Author | : Ralph Charles Sutherland Walker |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Truth |
| ISBN | : 9780415018685 |
| Author | : Ralph C.S. Walker |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2024-11-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1040280463 |
First published in 1988. Clarifies the coherence theory and critically discusses the standard objections to it as well as those who can be interpreted as advocating it. This book should be of interest to students of philosophy and epistemology and professional philosophers. In the view of the author, contemporary philosophy the coherence theory of truth occupies rather an odd position. On the one hand a number of textbook arguments against it are widely accepted, arguments which make it look as though the theory is hardly worth serious attention. On the other hand some of the principal currents of philosophical thought seem to be flowing away from the traditional conception of truth and towards a different conception, one which some of its supporters and some of its detractors have recognized as taking truth to consist in coherence. In the first two chapters the author tries to clarify what the coherence theory is (and is not), to show that it deserves serious attention, and to exhibit the pressures that can drive one towards it. Also attempted is to show how it relates to various other things that philosophers have said about truth, and also to idealism and anti-realism.
