Defending The Correspondence Theory Of Truth

Author : Joshua L. Rasmussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316004623
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth written by Joshua L. Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends the correspondence theory of truth by developing a new account of the relationship between truth and reality.

Author : Joshua Rasmussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107057744
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth written by Joshua Rasmussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends the correspondence theory of truth by developing a new account of the relationship between truth and reality.

Author : Alexander R. Pruss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191063886
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Necessary Existence written by Alexander R. Pruss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things.

Author : Tomoji Shogenji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135133655X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism written by Tomoji Shogenji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on the basis of its safety and informativeness, and the relative-divergence format, which evaluates a probabilistic model on the basis of its complexity and goodness of fit with data. Tomoji Shogenji shows that the former lends support to Cartesian skepticism, but the latter allows us to defeat Cartesian skepticism. Along the way, Shogenji addresses a number of related issues in epistemology and philosophy of science, including epistemic circularity, epistemic closure, and inductive skepticism.

Author : Douglas Owain Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198758693
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Truth written by Douglas Owain Edwards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? Douglas Edwards tackles these questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. He argues that in some domains language responds to the world, whereas in others language generates the world.

Author : Helen Beebee
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199283567
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truthmakers written by Helen Beebee and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of truthmaking is attracting much attention in contemporary metaphysics. This work asks how the truthmaker principle should be formulated, whether it is well motivated, whether it genuinely has the explanatory roles claimed for it, and whether more modest principles might serve just as well.

Author : Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195387465
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth and Pluralism written by Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors and contributors to this volume challenge the very basic assumption that truth has a uniform nature ranging across the boundaries of human knowledge by putting forth the idea of alethic pluralism — that there is more than one way of being true. This volume presents new essays by some of the world's leading philosophers to explore this new view and its implications for the philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic.

Author : Andrew Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434276
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence Theory of Truth written by Andrew Newman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Russell's theory of truth and discusses related metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions. Like Russell and one prominent interpretation of the Tractatus it assumes a realist view of universals. Part of the aim is to avoid Platonic propositions, and although sympathy with facts is maintained in the early chapters, the book argues that facts as real entities are not needed. It includes discussion of contemporary philosophers such as David Armstrong, William Alston and Paul Horwich, as well as those who write about propositions and facts, and a number of students of Bertrand Russell. It will interest teachers and advanced students of philosophy who are interested in the realistic conception of truth and in issues in metaphysics related to the correspondence theory of truth, and those interested in Russell and the Tractatus.

Author : Blake E. Hestir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107132320
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth written by Blake E. Hestir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake E. Hestir's examination of Plato's conception of truth challenges a long tradition of interpretation in ancient scholarship.

Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720554
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Realist Conception of Truth written by William P. Alston and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of truth. William P. Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia," Greek for truth). This idea holds that the truth value of a statement (belief or proposition) depends on whether what the statement is about is as the statement says it is. Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam are two of the prominent and widely influential contemporary philosophers whose anti-realist ideas Alston attacks.