Truth Reference And Realism

Author : Zsolt Novák,András Simonyi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789639776920

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Truth, Reference and Realism by Zsolt Novák,András Simonyi Pdf

The volume presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005. The problem addressed by the conference, famously formulated by Paul Benacerraf in a paper on Mathematical Truth, was how to understand truth in the semantics of discourses about abstract domains whose objects and properties cannot be observed by sense perception. The papers of the volume focus on this semantic issue in four major fields: logic, mathematics, ethics and the metaphysics of properties in general. Beyond marking an important event, the collected papers are also substantial contributions to the above topic, from the most distinguished authors in these areas.

Author : Patrick Greenough,Michael Patrick Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199288887

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Truth and Realism by Patrick Greenough,Michael Patrick Lynch Pdf

Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.

Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691011877

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Realism and Truth by Michael Devitt Pdf

In a provocative thesis, philosophy professor Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world and for a corresponding notion of truthcontrary to the opinions of anti-realists such as Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and others. This second edition includes a new Afterword by the author.

Author : Richard A. Fumerton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742512835

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Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth by Richard A. Fumerton Pdf

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 : Zsolt Nov k,Andr s Simonyi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789639776869

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Truth, Reference, and Realism by Zsolt Nov k,Andr s Simonyi Pdf

"The volume presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005. The problem addressed by the conference, famously formulated by Paul Benacerraf in a paper on Mathematical Truth, was how to understand truth in the semantics of discourses about abstract domains whose objects and properties cannot be observed by sense perception. The papers of the volume focus on this semantic issue in four major fields: logic, mathematics, ethics and the metaphysics of properties in general. Beyond marking an important event, the collected papers are also substantial contributions to the above topic, from the most distinguished authors in these areas."--Publisher's website.

Author : G. Forrai
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401728683

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Reference, Truth and Conceptual Schemes by G. Forrai Pdf

1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The purpose of the book is to develop internal realism, the metaphysical-episte mological doctrine initiated by Hilary Putnam (Reason, Truth and History, "Introduction", Many Faces). In doing so I shall rely - sometimes quite heavily - on the notion of conceptual scheme. I shall use the notion in a somewhat idiosyncratic way, which, however, has some affinities with the ways the notion has been used during its history. So I shall start by sketching the history of the notion. This will provide some background, and it will also give opportunity to raise some of the most important problems I will have to solve in the later chapters. The story starts with Kant. Kant thought that the world as we know it, the world of tables, chairs and hippopotami, is constituted in part by the human mind. His cen tral argument relied on an analysis of space and time, and presupposed his famous doctrine that knowledge cannot extend beyond all possible experience. It is a central property of experience - he claimed - that it is structured spatially and temporally. However, for various reasons, space and time cannot be features of the world, as it is independently of our experience. So he concluded that they must be the forms of human sensibility, i. e. necessary ingredients of the way things appear to our senses.

Author : Stathis Psillos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134619825

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Scientific Realism by Stathis Psillos Pdf

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track. This book argues that the history of science does not undermine this notion, suggesting it as the best philosophical account of science.

Author : Athanassios Raftopoulos,Peter Machamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521198776

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Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference by Athanassios Raftopoulos,Peter Machamer Pdf

The chapters in the book address the problem of reference as it relates to perception and to debates about realism.

Author : Crispin Wright
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631171185

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REALISM, MEANING AND TRUTH by Crispin Wright Pdf

Author : K. Brad Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108415217

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Resisting Scientific Realism by K. Brad Wray Pdf

Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science. Shows the historical evidence and logical challenges facing scientific realism.

Author : Barry Taylor
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191536793

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Models, Truth, and Realism by Barry Taylor Pdf

Barry Taylor's book mounts an argument against one of the fundamental tenets of much contemporary philosophy, the idea that we can make sense of reality as existing objectively, independently of our capacities to come to know it. Part One sets the scene by arguings that traditional realism can be explicated as a doctrine about truth - that truth is objective, that is, public, bivalent, and epistemically independent. Part Two, the centrepiece of the book, shows how a form of Hilary Putnam's model-theoretic argument demonstrates that no such notion of truth can be founded on the idea of correspondence, as explained in model-theoretic terms (more traditional accounts of correspondence having been already disposed of in Part One). Part Three argues that non-correspondence accounts of truth - truth as superassertibility or idealized rational acceptability, formal conceptions of truth, Tarskian truth - also fail to meet the criteria for objectivity; along the way, it also dismisses the claims of the latterday views of Putnam, and of similar views articulated by John McDowell, to constitute a new, less traditional form of realism. In the Coda, Taylor bolsters some of the considerations advanced in Part Three in evaluating formal conceptions of truth, by assessing and rejecting the claims of Robert Brandom to have combined such an account of truth with a satisfactory account of semantic structure. He concludes that there is no defensible notion of truth which preserves the theses of traditional realism, nor any extant position sufficiently true to the ideals of that doctrine to inherit its title. So the only question remaining is which form of antirealism to adopt.

Author : Tim Button
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199672172

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The Limits of Realism by Tim Button Pdf

Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and we cannot hope to say exactly where.

Author : Peter Kivy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : 0801484103

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Music Alone by Peter Kivy Pdf

What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to be the most difficult subject of all--"just plain music; music unaccompanied by text, title, subject, program, or plot; in other words, music alone."

Author : Crispin Wright
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674045385

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Truth and Objectivity by Crispin Wright Pdf

Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of “realism” in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical “deflationary” conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the “deflationary” conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.

Author : Norris Christopher Norris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Judgment
ISBN : 9781474471367

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Truth Matters by Norris Christopher Norris Pdf

Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to response-dependence, a topic that has become a main focus of interest for philosophers across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas.The response-dependence claim, in brief, is to provide a 'third way' between the realist (or objectivist) conception of truth as always potentially transcending the limits of human ascertainment and the anti-realist (or verificationist) case that truth cannot possibly transcend those limits since then we could never acquire or manifest a knowledge of it.While setting out the issues clearly and concisely, Norris also provides some relevant background history to this current debate, including discussion of its sources and analogues in Plato, Locke, Kant and Wittgenstein. His book offers invaluable guidance for student readers in search of a reliable introductory survey of the field. Among those with a more specialist interest it may sometimes provoke disagreement, as when Norris argues that the response-dependence approach often goes along with a disguised anti-realist bias and hence fails to make good on its 'third-way' promise. However, its combination of wide-ranging coverage with clarity of focus and depth of philosophical treatment will be welcomed.Key Features:*Clear, accessible account of some complex philosophical issues;*First book-length study of the response-dependence debate;*Informative discussion of its pre-history in philosophers from Plato to Hume, Locke and Kant;*Aimed at readers seeking a reliable, well-informed introductory account while relevant to those with a more specialist knowledge of the topic.