Truth
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 September 1999
- ISBN 9780198752509
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages412 pages
- Size 202x134x22 mm
- Weight 473 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume is designed to set out some of the central issues in the theory of truth. It begins with writings by F. H. Bradley, William James, Gottlob Frege, and Bertrand Russell, and continues with the classical discussions from the middle of the century (including Wittgenstein, Quine, and Austin), ending with a selection of contemporary contributions, including essays from Donald Davison and Richard Rorty.
The editors provide a substantial introduction, in which they map out this terrain and look at how the debates relate to further issues, such as work on the liar paradox and formal truth theories.
Long description:
The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editors of each volume contribute an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.
This volume is designed to set out some of the central issues in the theory of truth. It begins with writings by F. H. Bradley, William James, Gottlob Frege, and Bertrand Russell, and continues wih the classical discussions from the middle of the century (including Wittgenstein, Quine, and Austin), ending with a selection of contemporary contributions, including essays from Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty. The collection draws together, for the first time, the debates between philosophers who favour 'robust' or 'substantive' theories of truth, and those other, 'deflationist' or minimalists, who deny that such theories can be given.
The editors provide a substantial introduction, in which they map out this terrain and locate writers from Frege to Wittgenstein and Davidson within it. They also describe how these debates relate to more technical issues, such as work on the Liar paradox and formal truth theories.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I: BACKGROUND `ROBUST' THEORIES
On Truth and Copying
The Nature of Truth
Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
William James's Conception of Truth
PART II: EARLY MINIMALIST THEORIES
The Thought: A Logical Enquiry
On Facts and Propositions
Philosophical Extracts
The Semantic Conception of Truth
Philosophy of Logic
PART III: THE EARLY MODERN DEBATE
Truth
Truth
Unfair to Facts
PART IV: MODERN MINIMALISM AND DOUBTS ABOUT IT
Truth: A Traditional Debate Reviewed
The Minimalist Conception of Truth
Of What Kind of Thing is Truth a Property?
A Critique of Deflationism
The Folly of Trying to Define Truth
Pragmatism, Davidson, and Truth
Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content
Notes on the Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index
