Truth And The Absence Of Fact
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Truth And The Absence Of Fact
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Author : Hartry Field
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2001-03-01
Truth And The Absence Of Fact written by Hartry Field and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-01 with Philosophy categories.
Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts. Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and propositional attitudes, five are primarily about semantic indeterminacy and other kinds of 'factual defectiveness' in our discourse, and three are primarily about issues concerning objectivity, especially in mathematics and in epistemology. The essays on truth, meaning, and the attitudes show a development from a form of correspondence theory of truth and meaning to a more deflationist perspective. The next set of papers argue that a place must be made in semantics for the idea that there are questions about which there is no fact of the matter, and address the difficulties involved in making sense of this, both within a correspondence theory of truth and meaning, and within a deflationary theory. Two papers argue that there are questions in mathematics about which there is no fact of the mattter, and draw out implications of this for the nature of mathematics. And the final paper argues for a view of epistemology in which it is not a purely fact-stating enterprise. This influential work by a key figure in contemporary philosophy will reward the attention of any philosopher interested in language, epistemology, or mathematics.
Truth And The Absence Of Fact
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Author : Hartry H. Field
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Truth And The Absence Of Fact written by Hartry H. Field and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Language and languages categories.
Field presents a selection of 13 essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy. Five of the essays are about truth and meaning, five are about semantic indeterminacy, and three are about issues concerning objectivity.
The Blackwell Guide To The Philosophy Of Language
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Author : Michael Devitt
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
The Blackwell Guide To The Philosophy Of Language written by Michael Devitt and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Philosophy categories.
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language is a collection of twenty new essays in a cutting-edge and wide-ranging field. Surveys central issues in contemporary philosophy of language while examining foundational topics Provides pedagogical tools such as abstracts and suggestions for further readings Topics addressed include the nature of meaning, speech acts and pragmatics, figurative language, and naturalistic theories of reference
Bare Facts And Naked Truths
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Author : George Englebretsen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-29
Bare Facts And Naked Truths written by George Englebretsen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with Philosophy categories.
The very idea of truth as a substantial and meaningful concept has been under attack recently from advocates of New Age and postmodern theories. In this book Englebretsen defends the notions of truth and objectivity as key to the scientific view of the natural world and presents an original defence of the 'commonsense' correspondence theory of truth. Englebretsen's approach overcomes the traditional difficulties of correspondence theories of truth with providing adequate and convincing accounts of truth-bearers, truth-makers and the correspondence relation between them by taking truth-bearers to be propositions and facts as constitutive properties of the world. This accessibly written book surveys all of the major competing theories of truth (coherence, pragmatic, redundancy, semantic, deflationary, disquotational, minimalist) before formulating the new defence of the correspondence theory and then exploring the consequences of the theory for issues in epistemology and ontology. The book concludes by showing how the idea of 'propositional depth' can be used to dissolve the Liar paradoxes.
Non State Actors In Conflicts
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Author : Banu Baybars Hawks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-11
Non State Actors In Conflicts written by Banu Baybars Hawks and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with Social Science categories.
Non-State Actors in Conflicts: Conspiracies, Myths, and Practices explores some of the most pressing topics in political science and media studies. The contributions gathered here provide alternative perspectives on various non-state actors and their functions in global politics, in addition to providing case studies and theoretical approaches towards non-state actors, such as armed non-state actors and international non-governmental organizations. The volume also covers the topic of conspiracy theories and conspiracies formed in relation to the functions and existence of these actors.
The Moving Spotlight
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Author : Ross P. Cameron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Moving Spotlight written by Ross P. Cameron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Philosophy categories.
Ross P. Cameron argues that the flow of time is a genuine feature of reality. He suggests that the best version of the A-Theory is a version of the Moving Spotlight view, according to which past and future beings are real, but there is nonetheless an objectively privileged present. Cameron argues that the Moving Spotlight theory should be viewed as having more in common with Presentism (the view that reality is limited to the present) than with the B-Theory (the view that time is just another dimension like space through which things are spread out). The Moving Spotlight view, on this picture, agrees with Presentism that everything is the way it is now, it simply thinks that non-present beings are amongst the things that are now some way. Cameron argues that the Moving Spotlight theory provides the best account of truthmakers for claims about what was or will be the case, and he defends the view against a number of objections, including McTaggart's argument that the A-Theory is inconsistent, and the charge that if the A-Theory is true but presentism false then we could not know that we are present. The Moving Spotlight defends an account of the open future--that what will happen is, as yet, undetermined--and argues that this is a better account than that available to the Growing Block theory.
Acquaintance Ontology And Knowledge
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Author : Fred Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Acquaintance Ontology And Knowledge written by Fred Wilson and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
These essays bring together forty years of work in ontology. Intentionality, negation, universals, bare particulars, tropes, general facts, relations, the myth of the 'myth of the given', are among the topics covered. Bergmann, Quine, Sellars, Russell, Wittgenstein, Hume, Bradley, Hochberg, Dummett, Frege, Plato, are among the philosophers discussed. The essays criticize non-Humean notions of cause; they criticize the notion that besides simple atomic facts there are also negative facts and general facts. They defend a realism of properties as universals, against nominalism; bare particulars; a (qualified) realism with regard to logical form; a Russellian account of relations; and an account of minds and intentionality, which is opposed to materialism, but is also a form of (methodological) behaviourism. In general, the ontology is one of logical atomism and empiricist throughout, rooted in a Principle of Acquaintance.
Wittgenstein S Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
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Author : José L. Zalabardo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-14
Wittgenstein S Tractatus Logico Philosophicus written by José L. Zalabardo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Philosophy categories.
Eleven essays by leading scholars on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, presenting ideas on how to read the Tractatus and its relevance to contemporary thought.
The Cambridge Companion To Wittgenstein
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Author : Hans D. Sluga
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-28
The Cambridge Companion To Wittgenstein written by Hans D. Sluga and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-28 with Philosophy categories.
The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics.
The Cambridge Companion To Wittgenstein
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Author : Hans Sluga
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Cambridge Companion To Wittgenstein written by Hans Sluga and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Philosophy categories.
Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.