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Author | : D. M. Armstrong |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2004-05-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521547239 |
This book, first published in 2004, makes a compelling case for truthmaking and its importance in philosophy.
Author | : Jamin Asay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108499880 |
Demonstrates how truthmaking can be used to make progress all across philosophy, but without its usual theoretical baggage.
Author | : Helen Beebee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2005-08-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199283567 |
The concept of truthmaking is attracting much attention in contemporary metaphysics. This work asks how the truthmaker principle should be formulated, whether it is well motivated, whether it genuinely has the explanatory roles claimed for it, and whether more modest principles might serve just as well.
Author | : Jamin Asay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108604048 |
The theory of truthmaking has long aroused skepticism from philosophers who believe it to be tangled up in contentious ontological commitments and unnecessary theoretical baggage. In this book, Jamin Asay shows why that suspicion is unfounded. Challenging the current orthodoxy that truthmaking's fundamental purpose is to be a tool for explaining why truths are true, Asay revives the conception of truthmaking as fundamentally an exercise in ontology: a means for coordinating one's beliefs about what is true and one's ontological commitments. He goes on to show how truthmaking connects to analyticity, truth, and realism, and how it contributes to debates over nominalism, presentism, mathematical objects, and fictional characters. His book is the most comprehensive exploration to date into what truthmaking is and how it contributes to metaphysical debates across philosophy, and will interest a wide range of readers in metaphysics and beyond.
Author | : Jean-Maurice Monnoyer |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110326914 |
The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian substances, states of affairs, meanings or essences ? ). Taking as their starting point a famous seminal paper by K. Mulligan, P. Simons and B. Smith, as well as D. Armstrong’s outstanding contribution to the subject, they offer a fresh assay of the main concepts involved, in order to assess the explanatory value of truthmakers and truthmaker necessitarianism, and explore such delicate issues as contingent truth, bare possibility, tensed propositions, the ontological irreducibility of relations, the subsistence of facts and the epistemic role of negative truths. The collection as a whole provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking survey of the current debate about truthmaking theory and deserves to be read carefully by anyone interested in the relationship between language, thought and reality. With contributions from David ARMSTRONG, Stefano CAPUTO, François CLEMENTZ, Pascal ENGEL, Herbert HOCHBERG, Philipp KELLER, Jonathan LOWE, Jean-Maurice MONNOYER, Kevin MULLIGAN, Stephen MUMFORD, Frederic NEF, Peter SIMONS, Barry SMITH, Jonathan SIMON
Author | : Helen Beebee |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2005-08-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191515760 |
Author | : Mark Jago |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198823819 |
Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.
Author | : Bob Hale |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 1176 |
Release | : 2017-02-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1118972082 |
“Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.
Author | : Federico L. G. Faroldi |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 2023-11-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3031294157 |
This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others. Contributing authors address in-depth issues about truthmaker semantics, counterfactual conditionals, grounding, vagueness, non-classical consequence relations, and arbitrary objects, offering critical reflections and novel research contributions. Each chapter is accompanied by an extensive commentary, in which Kit Fine offers detailed responses to the ideas and themes raised by the contributors. The book includes a brief autobiography and exhaustive list of his publications to this date. This book is of interest to logicians of all stripes and to analytic philosophers more generally.
Author | : Jonathan Tallant |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-10-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351388509 |
How do we explain the truth of true propositions? Truthmaker theory is the branch of metaphysics that explores the relationships between what is true and what exists. It plays an important role in contemporary debates about the nature of metaphysics and metaphysical enquiry. In this book Jonathan Tallant argues, controversially, that we should reject truthmaker theory. In its place he argues for an 'explanationist' approach. Drawing on a deflationary theory of truth he shows that it allows us to explain the truth of true propositions and respond to recent arguments that purport to show otherwise. He augments this with a distinction between internally and externally quantified claims: externally quantified claims are claims that quantify over elements of our ontology that play an indispensable explanatory role; internally quantified claims do not. He deploys this union of deflationism and a distinction between kinds of quantification to pursue metaphysical inquiry, sketching the implications for a number of first-order debates, including those in the philosophy of time, modality and mathematics, and also shows how this explanationist model can be used to solve the key problems that afflicted truthmaker theory. Truth and the World is an important contribution to debates about truth and truthmaker theory as well as metametaphysics, the metaphysics of time and the metaphysics of mathematics, and is essential reading for students and scholars engaged in the study of these topics.