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.
Author | : Michael Marder |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442612657 |
The Event of the Thing is the most complete examination to date of Derrida's understanding of thinghood and its crucial role in psychoanalysis, ethics, literary theory, aesthetics, and Marxism.
Author | : Michael P. Lynch |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262542064 |
The definitive and essential collection of classic and new essays on analytic theories of truth, revised and updated, with seventeen new chapters. The question "What is truth?" is so philosophical that it can seem rhetorical. Yet truth matters, especially in a "post-truth" society in which lies are tolerated and facts are ignored. If we want to understand why truth matters, we first need to understand what it is. The Nature of Truth offers the definitive collection of classic and contemporary essays on analytic theories of truth. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated, incorporating both historically central readings on truth's nature as well as up-to-the-moment contemporary essays. Seventeen new chapters reflect the current trajectory of research on truth.
Author | : C. G. Prado |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521855235 |
This book compares John Searle and Michel Foucault's radically opposed views on truth in order to demonstrate the need for invigorating cross-fertilization between the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions. By pressing beyond familiar clichés about analytic philosophy and postmodernism, a surprising convergence of Searle and Foucault's thought on truth emerge. Prado rebuts the analytic impression of Michel Foucault as a radical relativist and shows that Foucault not only is a realist, but also is much closer than many imagine to John Searle and Donald Davidson, both model analytic thinkers