Truth: A Contemporary Reader (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Edwards, Douglas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic: the nature of truth and the value of truth.

Featuring 22 essays, this up-to-date reader includes seminal work by leading figures in contemporary analytic philosophy. It charts the development of the central 'grand proposals' about the nature of truth, and subsequently how their influence gradually diminished in face of new theories developed in the 20th and 21st-centuries. The reader also demonstrates how truth is often taken to be valuable in various ways, in particular as the norm of correctness for belief and assertion, and the relationship between truth and other epistemic values.

With introductory overviews to each group of related papers complemented by guides to further reading, this reader introduces the central debates, familiarizes students with the most important work in the field and covers pivotal theories of truth including:

- correspondence theories
- coherentism, pragmatism, verificationism
- deflationary, primitivist, and pluralist theories

Moreover, by showing how thoughts about truth and value bear heavily on one another, Truth: A Contemporary Reader provides new opportunities for understanding and advancing the link between these central topics. This is an essential collection for anyone studying or working in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474213318
• Artikelnr.: 57111747

Autorenporträt

Douglas Edwards is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Utica College, USA. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Truth (2018), and Properties (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction
Douglas Edwards Part 1. Correspondence Theories of Truth Editor's Introduction
Douglas Edwards 1. Bertrand Russell
'Truth and Falsehood' 2. Marian David
'Truth-Making and Correspondence' 3. Hartry Field
'Tarski's Theory of Truth' 4. Dorothy Grover
'Truth and Language - World Connections' Part 2. Epistemic Theories of Truth Editor's Introduction
Douglas Edwards 5. F.H. Bradley
'On Truth and Copying' 6. Paul Thagard
'Coherence
Truth
and the Development of Scientific Knowledge' 7. Charles S. Peirce
'How to Make Our Ideas Clear' 8. William James
'Pragmatism's Conception of Truth' 9. Cheryl Misak
'Pragmatism on Solidarity
Bullshit
and Other Deformities of Truth' Part 3. Deflationism About Truth Editor's Introduction
Douglas Edwards 10. Paul Horwich
'A Defense of Minimalism' 11. Hartry Field
'Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content' 12. Dorothy Grover
'On Two Deflationary Truth Theories' 13. Matti Eklund
'What is Deflationism about Truth?' Part 4. Primitivist Theories of Truth Editor's Introduction
Douglas Edwards 14. Donald Davidson
'The Folly of Trying to Define Truth' 15. Trenton Merricks
'Truth as a Primitive' Part 5. Pluralist Theories of Truth Editor's Introduction
Douglas Edwards 16. Crispin Wright
'Truth: A Traditional Debate Reviewed' 17. Douglas Edwards
'Simplifying Alethic Pluralism' 18. Gila Sher
'In Search of a Substantive Theory of Truth' Part 6. The Value and Normativity of Truth Editor's Introduction
Douglas Edwards 19. Linda Zagzebski
'Intellectual Motivation and the Good of Truth' 20. Michael P. Lynch
'Minimalism and the Value of Truth' 21. Huw Price
'Truth as Convenient Friction' 22. Catherine Z. Elgin
'True Enough' Index