The Oxford Handbook of Truth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Truth is one of the central concepts in philosophy, and has been a perennial subject of study. Michael Glanzberg has brought together 36 leading experts from around the world to produce the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They consider how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present day, surveying major debates about truth during the emergence of analytic philosophy. They offer critical assessments of the standard theories of truth, including the coherence, correspondence, identity, and pragmatist theories. They explore the role of truth in metaphysics, with lively discussion of truthmakers, proposition, determinacy, objectivity, deflationism, fictionalism, relativism, and pluralism. Finally the handbook explores broader applications of truth in philosophy, including ethics, science, and mathematics, and reviews formal work on truth and its application to semantic paradox. This Oxford Handbook will be an invaluable resource across all areas of philosophy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-19
Mått:171 x 246 x 56 mm
Vikt:1 558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Handbooks
Antal sidor:822
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199557929

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Michael Glanzberg (Ph.D. Harvard, 1997) taught at MIT, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Davis before joining Northwestern University. He works in the areas of philosophy of language, logic, and metaphysics. In philosophy of language, his recent work has focused on the nature of linguistic meaning, including such topic as the nature of quantification, how lexical items encode concepts, and relativism about linguistic content. He has also explored issues related to the interface between semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, and the role of mathematical techniques in the empirical study of language. In philosophical logic and in metaphysics, he has worked extensively on issues related to truth and paradox, and the status of unrestricted quantification.

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Introduction PART I: ANCIENT AND MODERN THEORIES OF TRUTH 1: Jan Szaif: Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood 2: Margaret Cameron: Truth in the Middle Ages 3: Alan Nelson: Early Modern Theories of Truth 4: Clinton Tolley: Idealism and the Question of Truth PART II: TRUTH IN EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 5: Thomas Baldwin: Truth in British Idealism and its Analytic Critics 6: Peter Sullivan and Colin Johnston: Facts and Propositions: Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey 7: Richard Kimberly Heck and Robert May: Truth in Frege PART III: THE CLASSICAL THEORIES OF TRUTH 8: Ralph C. S. Walker: The Coherence Theory of Truth 9: Marian David: The Correspondence Theory of Truth 10: Stewart Candlish and Nic Damnjanovic: The Identity Theory of Truth 11: Cheryl Misak: The Pragmatist Theory of Truth PART IV: TRUTH IN METAPHYSICS 12: Jeffrey C. King: Truth Bearers and Proposition 13: Ross P. Cameron: Truthmakers 14: Neil Tennant: A Logical Theory of Truthmakers and Falsitymakers 15: Ian Rumfitt: Bivalence and Determinacy 16: Sanford Shieh: Truth, Objectivity, and Realism 17: Jody Azzouni: Deflationist Truth 18: Alexi Burgess: Truth in Fictionalism 19: Herman Cappelen and Torfinn Thomesen Huvenes: Relative Truth 20: Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen and Michael P. Lynch: Truth Pluralism PART V: OTHER APPLICATIONS 21: Mark Schroeder: Moral Truth 22: Anjan Chakravartty: Truth and the Sciences 23: Graham Oddie: Truth and Truthlikeness 24: Øystein Linnebo: Truth in Mathematics PART VI: FORMAL THEORIES AND PARADOX 25: Roy A. Sorensen: Semantic Paradoxes: A Psychohistory of Self-Defeat 26: Greg Ray: Tarski on the Concept of Truth 27: Kentaro Fujimoto and Volker Halbach: The Axiomatic Approach to Truth 28: Jc Beall and David Ripley: Non-classical Theories of Truth 29: Keith Simmons: Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox