Paul Horwich

Truth -- Meaning -- Reality

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Produktbeschreibung

Truth -- Meaning -- Reality presents a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, and reality. Horwich's story begins with his minimalist view of truth -- paving the way to an account of meaning as use. The fourteen essays constitute a coherent and complete expression of this three-pronged philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199268900
• ISBN-10: 0199268908
• Artikelnr.: 28522784

Autorenporträt

Paul Horwich (BA Oxford 1968, MA Yale 1969, PhD Cornell 1974) is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: What is truth?
2: Varieties of deflationism
3: A defense of minimalism
4: The value of truth
5: A minimalist critique of Tarski
6: Kripke's paradox of meaning
7: Regularities, rules, meanings, truth conditions, and epistemic norms
8: Semantics: What's truth got to do with it?
9: The motive power of evaluative concepts
10: Ungrounded reason
11: The nature of paradox
12: A world without 'isms'
13: The quest for REALITY
14: Being and truth
Provenance of essays
Bibliography
Index