Truth and Its Nature (if Any)

Truth and Its Nature (if Any) edited by J. Peregrin.

The question how to turn the principles implicitly governing the concept of truth into an explicit definition (or explication) of the concept hence coalesced with the question how to get a finite grip on the infinity of T-sentences. Tarski's famous and ingenious move was to introduce a new conc...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Peregrin, J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 284
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Epistemology.
Logic.
Semantics.
Modern philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Past Masters on Truth
  • Frege: Assertion, Truth and Meaning
  • Carnap, Syntax, and Truth
  • James’s Conception of Truth
  • II. Tarski and Correspondence
  • Semantic Conception of Truth as a Philosophical Theory
  • Truth, Correspondence, Satisfaction
  • Do We Need Correspondence Truth?
  • Tarskian Truth as Correspondence — Replies to Some Objections
  • III. The Substantiality of Truth
  • The Centrality of Truth
  • Mapping the Structure of Truth: Davidson Contra Rorty
  • The Explanatory Value of Truth Theoriesembodying the Semantic Conception
  • Negative Truth and Knowledge
  • IV. The Insubstantiality of Truth: The Pros and Cons of Deflationism
  • Deflationary Truth, Aboutness and Meaning
  • The Substance of Deflation
  • Does the Strategy of Austerity Work?
  • Rethinking the Concept of Truth: A Critique of Deflationism.

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