Models, truth, and realism / Barry Taylor.

By:

Taylor, Barry (Barry M.) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 2006Description: x, 185 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0199286698
9780199286690

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

149.2 22

Contents:

Overview : the argument of this book -- I. The explication of realism -- 1. Realism and objective truth -- 2. Realism explicated -- II. Model theory and correspondence -- 3. Putnam's model-theoretic arguments -- 4. Changing the rules -- 5. The status of natural properties -- III. Realism without correspondence? -- 6. Taking the hierarchy seriously -- 7. Formal theories of truth and Putnam's 'common-sense realism' -- 8. Tarskian truth and the views of John McDowell -- Coda : Brandom, compositionality, and singular terms.

Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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