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Metaphysics and truthmakers / Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (ed.).

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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Author/Creator:
Conference "Truths and truthmakers: Vingt ans après", Corporate Author.
Contributor:
Monnoyer, Jean-Maurice.
Conference Name:
Conference "Truths and truthmakers: Vingt ans après" (2004 : Université d'Aix-Provence)
Conference "Truths and truthmakers: Vingt ans apráes"
Series:
Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 18.
Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical analysis ; v. 18
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Truth--Congresses.
Truth.
Metaphysics--Congresses.
Metaphysics.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (334 p.)
Place of Publication:
Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos ; Pisctaway, N.J. : Distributed by Transaction Books, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian substances, states of affairs, meanings or essences? ). Taking as their starting point a famous seminal paper by K. Mulligan, P. Simons and B. Smith, as well as D. Armstrong's outstanding contribution to the subject, they offer a fresh assay of the main concepts involved, in order to assess the explanatory value of truthmakers and truthmaker necessitarianism, and explore such delicate issues as con
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
Vingt ans après / Monnoyer, Jean-Maurice
Truth-Makers / Mulligan, Kevin / Simons, Peter / Smith, Barry
Two Dogmas of Truthmaking / Mulligan, Kevin
Truth in virtue of meaning / Simons, Peter
Truthmaker Explanations / Smith, Barry / Simon, Jonathan
Truthmakers for negative truths, and for truths of mere possibility / Armstrong, D.M.
A World of Truthmakers / Keller, Philipp
Reply to Keller / Armstrong, D.M.
Relational Truthmakers / Clementz, François
'Is True' and 'Makes-True': Two Predicates Without Properties / Hochberg, Herbert
Senex erit puer / Nef, Frédéric
Truthmaking as Essential Dependence / Lowe, E. J.
Identity Makers / Engel, Pascal
Truth-making : What it is not and What it Could be / Caputo, Stefano
A New Solution to the Problem of Negative Truth / Mumford, Stephen
The Price of Positivity : Mumford and Negatives / Simons, Peter
Backmatter
Notes:
International conference proceedings, Dec. 9-11, 2004, University of Aix-en-Provence, Aix-Marseille.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
3-938793-32-5
3-11-032691-4
OCLC:
851970947

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