What is Truth?

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Richard Schantz
Walter de Gruyter, 18 de ago. de 2011 - 346 páginas

In this collection of original papers, leading international authorities turn their attention to one of the most important questions in theoretical philosophy: what is truth?

To arrive at an answer, two further questions need to be addressed in this context: 1) Does truth possess any essence, any inner nature? and 2) If so, what does this nature consist of?

The present discussion focuses on the antagonism between substantial or robust theories of truth, with correspondence theory taking the lead, and deflationist or minimalist views, which have been commanding an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Whereas substantial theories proceed from the premise that truth has an essence, and that therefore the objective is to discover this essence, the challenge presented by deflationism is to dispense with this very premise.

 

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Introduction
1
I The Correspondence Theory
9
Concept and Property
11
Truths and Truthmakers
27
Truth Through Thick and Thin
38
The Metaphysics of Deflationary Truth
60
Truth Meaning and Reference
79
II Deflationism Defended
101
The Truth about Truth
194
Generalizations of Homophonic Truthsentences
205
IV Tarski Challenged
223
An Argument Against Tarskis Convention T
225
What is Truth? Stay for an Answer
238
V Alternative Approaches
247
The Two Faces of the Concept of Truth
249
A Prolegomenon to a General Theory
263

Explanatory vs Expressive Deflationism about Truth
103
On Locating Our Interest in Truth
120
Norms of Truth and Meaning
133
On Some Critics of Deflationism
146
III Deflationism Attacked
159
Minimalism and the Facts about Truth
161
Disquotationalist Conceptions of Truth
176
How Not to Misunderstand Peirce A Pragmatist Account of Truth
283
A Problem about Truth
299
An Indefinibilist cum Normative View of Truth and the Marks of Truth
316
Index of Subjects
333
Index of Names
334
Contributors
337
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Termos e frases comuns

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Sobre o autor (2011)

Richard Schantz, University of Siegen.

Informações bibliográficas

TítuloWhat is Truth?
Volume 1 de Schantz, Richard: Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy
EditorRichard Schantz
Ediçãoreimpressão
EditoraWalter de Gruyter, 2011
ISBN3110886669, 9783110886665
Num. págs.346 páginas
  
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