An Identity Theory Of Truth

Author : J. Dodd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349628704

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This book argues that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation which holds between a true thought and a fact is that of identity, not correspondence. According to Julian Dodd, facts are not complexes of worldly entities; they are, as Frege believed, true thoughts. The supposed truthmaker is nothing but the truthbearer. The author christens this response to correspondence theories the modest identity theory, which he goes on to distinguish from those identity theories propounded, at some time or other, by Russell, Moore, Bradley, John McDowell and Jennifer Hornsby. It is acknowledged that the modest identity theory provides neither a definition of truth nor an account of what truth consists in. The modest identity theory's role is, by contrast, that of diagnosing the failure of correspondence theories, and thereby preparing the ground for a proper deflation of the concept of truth: a deflation defended in the latter part of the book.

Author : Julian Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Philosophy of mind
ISBN : 1349628727

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The identity theory of truth by Julian Dodd Pdf

This book argues that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation which holds between a true thought and a fact is that of identity, not correspondence. According to Julian Dodd, facts are not complexes of worldly entities; they are, as Frege believed, true thoughts. The supposed truthmaker is nothing but the truthbearer. The author christens this response to correspondence theories the modest identity theory, which he goes on to distinguish from those identity theories propounded, at some time or other, by Russell, Moore, Bradley, John McDowell and Jennifer Hornsby. It is acknowledged that the modest identity theory provides neither a definition of truth nor an account of what truth consists in. The modest identity theory's role is, by contrast, that of diagnosing the failure of correspondence theories, and thereby preparing the ground for a proper deflation of the concept of truth: a deflation defended in the latter part of the book.

Author : Andrew Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139434270

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The Correspondence Theory of Truth by Andrew Newman Pdf

This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Russell's theory of truth and discusses related metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions. Like Russell and one prominent interpretation of the Tractatus it assumes a realist view of universals. Part of the aim is to avoid Platonic propositions, and although sympathy with facts is maintained in the early chapters, the book argues that facts as real entities are not needed. It includes discussion of contemporary philosophers such as David Armstrong, William Alston and Paul Horwich, as well as those who write about propositions and facts, and a number of students of Bertrand Russell. It will interest teachers and advanced students of philosophy who are interested in the realistic conception of truth and in issues in metaphysics related to the correspondence theory of truth, and those interested in Russell and the Tractatus.

Author : Julian Michael Nicholas Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Truth
ISBN : OCLC:53661973

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Fact and Thought by Julian Michael Nicholas Dodd Pdf

Author : Joshua Rasmussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107057746

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Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth by Joshua Rasmussen Pdf

This book defends the correspondence theory of truth by developing a new account of the relationship between truth and reality.

Author : Michael P. Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262621452

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The Nature of Truth by Michael P. Lynch Pdf

"What is truth?" has long been the philosophical question par excellence. The Nature of Truth collects in one volume the twentieth century's most influential philosophical work on the subject. The coverage strikes a balance between classic works and the leading edge of current philosophical research. The essays center around two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature? And if so, what sort of nature does it have? Thus the book discusses both traditional and deflationary theories of truth, as well as phenomenological, postmodern, and pluralist approaches to the problem. The essays are organized by theory. Each of the seven sections opens with a detailed introduction that not only discusses the essays in that section but relates them to other relevant essays in the book. Eleven of the essays are previously unpublished or substantially revised. The book also includes suggestions for further reading. Contributors Linda Martín Alcoff, William P. Alston, J.L. Austin, Brand Blanshard, Marian David, Donald Davidson, Michael Devitt, Michael Dummett, Hartry Field, Michel Foucault, Dorothy Grover, Anil Gupta, Martin Heidegger, Terence Horgan, Jennifer Hornsby, Paul Horwich, William James, Michael P. Lynch, Charles Sanders Pierce, Hilary Putnam, W.V.O. Quine, F.P. Ramsey, Richard Rorty, Bertrand Russell, Scott Soames, Ernest Sosa, P.F. Strawson, Alfred Tarski, Ralph C. Walker, Crispin Wright

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674030222

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Truth and Predication by Donald Davidson Pdf

This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of truth in order to live well. Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the classics, and an even earlier engagement with the workings of grammar; in the pleasures of diagramming sentences in grade school, he locates his first glimpse into the mechanics of how we conduct the most important activities in our life--such as declaring love, asking directions, issuing orders, and telling stories. Davidson connects these essential questions with the most basic and yet hard to understand mysteries of language use--how we connect noun to verb. This is a problem that Plato and Aristotle wrestled with, and Davidson draws on their thinking to show how an understanding of linguistic behavior is critical to the formulating of a workable concept of truth. Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.

Author : Jamin Asay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107434950

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The Primitivist Theory of Truth by Jamin Asay Pdf

Jamin Asay's book offers a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question 'What is truth?', with a comprehensive articulation and defence of primitivism, the view that truth is a fundamental and indefinable concept. Often associated with Frege and the early Russell and Moore, primitivism has been largely absent from the larger conversation surrounding the nature of truth. Asay defends primitivism by drawing on a range of arguments from metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of logic, and navigates between correspondence theory and deflationism by reviving analytic philosophy's first theory of truth. In its exploration of the role that truth plays in our cognitive and linguistic lives, The Primitivist Theory of Truth offers an account of not just the nature of truth, but the foundational role that truth plays in our conceptual scheme. It will be valuable for students and scholars of philosophy of language and of metaphysics.

Author : Michael Vernon Wedin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198715474

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Parmenides' Grand Deduction by Michael Vernon Wedin Pdf

Michael V. Wedin presents a rigorous reconstruction of the deductions in Parmenides' 'Way of Truth': the most important philosophical treatise before Plato and Aristotle. He answers criticisms which claim that Parmenides' arguments are shot through with logical fallacies, and argues against natural explanations of Parmenides in the Ionian tradition.

Author : S. C. Gibb,Sophie C. Gibb,E. J. Lowe,R. D. Ingthorsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199603770

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Mental Causation and Ontology by S. C. Gibb,Sophie C. Gibb,E. J. Lowe,R. D. Ingthorsson Pdf

This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem.

Author : Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118972083

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Language by Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller Pdf

“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 : Simone Gozzano,Christopher S. Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107000148

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New Perspectives on Type Identity by Simone Gozzano,Christopher S. Hill Pdf

This book argues that many mental states, including such conscious states as perceptual experiences and bodily sensations, are identical with brain states.

Author : Maria Rosa Antognazza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198718642

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Leibniz by Maria Rosa Antognazza Pdf

This work considers who Leibniz was and introduces his overarching intellectual vision. It follows his pursuit of the systematic reform and advancement of all the sciences, to be undertaken as a collaborative enterprise supported by an enlightened ruler, and his ultimate goal of the improvement of the human condition.

Author : Harry Frankfurt
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307265951

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On Truth by Harry Frankfurt Pdf

Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and "false" as meaningful categories, and even those who claim to love truth cause the rest of us to wonder whether they, too, aren't simply full of it. Practically speaking, many of us deploy the truth only when absolutely necessary, often finding alternatives to be more saleable, and yet somehow civilization seems to be muddling along. But where are we headed? Is our fast and easy way with the facts actually crippling us? Or is it "all good"? Really, what's the use of truth, anyway?With the same leavening wit and commonsense wisdom that animates his pathbreaking work On Bullshit, Frankfurt encourages us to take another look at the truth: there may be something there that is perhaps too plain to notice but for which we have a mostly unacknowledged yet deep-seated passion. His book will have sentient beings across America asking, "The truth—why didn't I think of that?"

Author : Peter J. Burke,Jan E. Stets
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197617212

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Identity Theory by Peter J. Burke,Jan E. Stets Pdf

The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology. Introduced more than fifty years ago, identity theory is a social psychological theory that attempts to understand person's identities, their sources in interaction and society, their processes of operation, and their consequences for interaction and society from a sociological perspective. In this fully updated second edition of Identity Theory, Peter J. Burke and Jan E. Stets expand and refine their discussion of identity theory. Each chapter has been significantly revised and chapters have been added to address new theoretical developments and empirical research in the field. They cover identity characteristics, the processes and outcomes of identity verification, and the operation of identities to detail in particular the role of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive processes. In addition, Burke and Stets explore the multiple identities individuals hold from their multiple positions in society and organizations as well as the multiple identities activated by many people interacting in groups and organizations. Written in an accessible style, this revised edition of Identity Theory continues to make the full range of this powerful theory understandable to readers at all levels.