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Author : Joshua L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Truth
ISBN : 1316004627
This book defends the correspondence theory of truth by developing a new account of the relationship between truth and reality.
Author : Joshua Rasmussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107057746
This book defends the correspondence theory of truth by developing a new account of the relationship between truth and reality.
Author : Joshua L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107644437
The correspondence theory of truth is a precise and innovative account of how the truth of a proposition depends upon that proposition's connection to a piece of reality. Joshua Rasmussen refines and defends the correspondence theory of truth, proposing new accounts of facts, propositions, and the correspondence between them. With these theories in hand, he then offers original solutions to the toughest objections facing correspondence theorists. Addressing the Problem of Funny Facts, Liar Paradoxes, and traditional epistemological questions concerning how our minds can access reality, he challenges recent objections, and defends what has traditionally been the most popular theory of truth. Written with clarity, precision, and sensitivity to a range of philosophical backgrounds, his book will appeal to advanced students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the relationship between truth and reality.
Author : Alexander R. Pruss,Joshua L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191063886
Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things.
Author : Andrew Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139434270
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 : Tomoji Shogenji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351336550
This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on the basis of its safety and informativeness, and the relative-divergence format, which evaluates a probabilistic model on the basis of its complexity and goodness of fit with data. Tomoji Shogenji shows that the former lends support to Cartesian skepticism, but the latter allows us to defeat Cartesian skepticism. Along the way, Shogenji addresses a number of related issues in epistemology and philosophy of science, including epistemic circularity, epistemic closure, and inductive skepticism.
Author : Douglas Owain Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198758693
What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? Douglas Edwards tackles these questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. He argues that in some domains language responds to the world, whereas in others language generates the world.
Author : Helen Beebee,Julian Dodd
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199283569
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 : Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen,Cory D. Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195387469
The editors and contributors to this volume challenge the very basic assumption that truth has a uniform nature ranging across the boundaries of human knowledge by putting forth the idea of alethic pluralism — that there is more than one way of being true. This volume presents new essays by some of the world's leading philosophers to explore this new view and its implications for the philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic.
Author : Richard A. Fumerton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742512835
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 : Blake E. Hestir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107132320
Blake E. Hestir's examination of Plato's conception of truth challenges a long tradition of interpretation in ancient scholarship.
Author : D. J. O'Connor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000479980
First published in 1975, The Correspondence Theory of Truth examines the simplest statements of empirical fact and establishes what we can mean when we say that such statements are true. In particular, the author has considered whether any or all of beliefs, sentences, statements, or propositions are properly said to be true or false. He proceeds to examine what we mean by the term ‘fact’ and what possible relation between facts and beliefs (or their linguistic embodiments) could be meant by the term ‘correspondence’. The second part of the book is a critical survey of important contemporary accounts of truth. The author examines Tarski’s semantic theory to see if it offers a satisfactory reconstruction of the essence of the traditional notion of correspondence, then J.L. Austin’s recent and famous version of the correspondence theory and some criticisms of it by Professor P. E. Strawson. A final chapter summarizes the viable content of the correspondence theory and suggests what problems about truth still remain for discussion if the theory is accepted. This book will be an essential read for students and scholars of Philosophy.
Author : Kevin W. Hector
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139503280
One of the central arguments of post-metaphysical theology is that language is inherently 'metaphysical' and consequently that it shoehorns objects into predetermined categories. Because God is beyond such categories, it follows that language cannot apply to God. Drawing on recent work in theology and philosophy of language, Kevin Hector develops an alternative account of language and its relation to God, demonstrating that one need not choose between fitting God into a metaphysical framework, on the one hand, and keeping God at a distance from language, on the other. Hector thus elaborates a 'therapeutic' response to metaphysics: given the extent to which metaphysical presuppositions about language have become embedded in common sense, he argues that metaphysics can be fully overcome only by defending an alternative account of language and its application to God, so as to strip such presuppositions of their apparent self-evidence and release us from their grip.
Author : Richard Rorty,Pascal Engel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231140142
American pragmatist Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality. "What's the Use of Truth?" is a rare opportunity to experience each side of this impassioned debate clearly and concisely.
Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501720550
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.