Truth and objectivity / Crispin Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Crispin, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x,247p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers a perspective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry. The text contains critical discussions of central concerns of realism philosophers, including "deflationary" conception of truth, internal realist truth, and scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation. Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical "deflationary" conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the "deflationary" conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.

Contents:

1. Inflating Deflationism 2. Minimal Truth, Internal Realism and Superassertibility 3. Convergence and Cognitive Command Appendix: The Euthyphro Contrast 4. Cognitive Command and the Theoreticity of Observation 5. Realism and the Best Explanation of Belief 6. Quietism Appendix: On an Argument against the Coherence of Minimalism about Meaning Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674045385

0674045386

OCLC:

923110674