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The nature of truth : classic and contemporary perspectives / edited by Michael P. Lynch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xvi, 802 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262621452
  • 9780262621458
  • 0262122391
  • 9780262122399
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121
LOC classification:
  • BD171. N35 2001
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mystery of Truth -- I. Realism and the Correspondence Theory -- 1. Truth and Falsehood -- 2. Truth -- 3. A Realist Conception of Truth -- 4. Contextual Semantics and Metaphysical Realism: Truth as Indirect Correspondence -- II. Coherence Theories -- 5. Coherence as the Nature of Truth -- 6. The Coherence Theory -- 7. The Case for Coherence -- III. Pragmatism and Verificatonism -- 8. How to Make Our Ideas Clear -- 9. Pragmatism's Conception of Truth -- 10. Truth -- 11. Two Philosophical Perspectives -- 12. Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright -- IV. Phenomenological and Postmodernist Conceptions -- 13. On the Essence of Truth -- 14. Truth and Power -- V. Tarski's Theory and Its Importance -- 15. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics -- 16. Tarski's Theory of Truth -- 17. What Is a Theory of Truth? -- VI. Deflationary Views and Their Critics -- 18. The Nature of Truth -- 19. Truth -- 20. Truth -- 21. Correspondence Truth, Disquotational Truth, and Deflationism -- 22. The Prosentential Theory: Further Reflections on Locating Our Interest in Truth -- 23. A Critique of Deflationism -- 24. A Defense of Minimalism -- 25. The Metaphysics of Truth -- VII. Primitivism, Identity Theory, and Alethic Pluralism -- 26. The Folly of Trying to Define Truth -- 27. Epistemology and Primitive Truth -- 28. Truth: The Identity Theory -- 29. Truth as Identity and Truth as Correspondence -- 30. The Face of Cognition -- 31. A Functionalist Theory of Truth -- 32. Minimalism, Deflationism, Pragmatism, Pluralism -- Contributors -- Index.
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"A Bradford book.".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mystery of Truth -- I. Realism and the Correspondence Theory -- 1. Truth and Falsehood -- 2. Truth -- 3. A Realist Conception of Truth -- 4. Contextual Semantics and Metaphysical Realism: Truth as Indirect Correspondence -- II. Coherence Theories -- 5. Coherence as the Nature of Truth -- 6. The Coherence Theory -- 7. The Case for Coherence -- III. Pragmatism and Verificatonism -- 8. How to Make Our Ideas Clear -- 9. Pragmatism's Conception of Truth -- 10. Truth -- 11. Two Philosophical Perspectives -- 12. Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright -- IV. Phenomenological and Postmodernist Conceptions -- 13. On the Essence of Truth -- 14. Truth and Power -- V. Tarski's Theory and Its Importance -- 15. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics -- 16. Tarski's Theory of Truth -- 17. What Is a Theory of Truth? -- VI. Deflationary Views and Their Critics -- 18. The Nature of Truth -- 19. Truth -- 20. Truth -- 21. Correspondence Truth, Disquotational Truth, and Deflationism -- 22. The Prosentential Theory: Further Reflections on Locating Our Interest in Truth -- 23. A Critique of Deflationism -- 24. A Defense of Minimalism -- 25. The Metaphysics of Truth -- VII. Primitivism, Identity Theory, and Alethic Pluralism -- 26. The Folly of Trying to Define Truth -- 27. Epistemology and Primitive Truth -- 28. Truth: The Identity Theory -- 29. Truth as Identity and Truth as Correspondence -- 30. The Face of Cognition -- 31. A Functionalist Theory of Truth -- 32. Minimalism, Deflationism, Pragmatism, Pluralism -- Contributors -- Index.

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