From Truth to Reality (eBook, PDF)

New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics
Redaktion: Dyke, Heather

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking "Are there numbers?" But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking "Is the sentence 'There are numbers' true?" Such semantic ascent implies that reality can be investigated by investigating our true sentences. This line of thought was dominant in twentieth century philosophy, but is now beginning to be called into question.

In From Truth to Reality, Heather Dyke brings together some of the foremost metaphysicians to examine approaches to truth, reality, and the connections between the two. This collection features new and previously unpublished material by JC Beall, Mark Colyvan, Michael Devitt, John Heil, Frank Jackson, Fred Kroon, D. H. Mellor, Luca Moretti, Alan Musgrave, Robert Nola, J. J. C. Smart, Paul Snowdon, and Daniel Stoljar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135246914
• Artikelnr.: 42981442

Autorenporträt

Heather Dyke

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Truth 'Unsettledness' in Bivalent Language: A Modest, Nonepistemic
Idea JC Beall Vagueness and Truth Mark Colyvan Part II: Reality Biological
Realism Michael Devitt Pleonastic Platonism Alan Musgrave Anomalous Monism
John Heil On the Metaphysical Implications of Some Epistemological
Commonplaces Frank Jackson Mathematical Platonism J. J. C. Smart Part III:
Truth and Reality On Creeping Minimalism and the Nature of Minimal Entities
Luca Moretti Hempel's Dilemma Daniel Stoljar From Reality to Truth: The
Case of Electrons and Electron Theory Robert Nola Reflections on the Gem
Fred Kroon On the Sortal Dependency of Individuation Thesis Paul Snowdon
Truthmakers for What? D. H. Mellor