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

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