Principles of truth / Volker Halbach, Leon Horsten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halbach, Volker.

Contributor:

Horsten, Leon.

Series:

Epistemische Studien (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 1.

Epistemische Studien (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Band 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2004.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy. On the other hand, mathematical logicians have developed sophisticated logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. Recent developments in logical theories of the semantical paradoxes are highly relevant for philosophical research on the notion of truth. And conversely, philosophical guidance is necessary for the development of logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. From this perspective, this volume intends to reflect and promote deeper interaction and collaboration between philosophers and logicians investigating the concept of truth than has existed so far. Aside from an extended introductory overview of recent work in the theory of truth, the volume consists of articles by leading philosophers and logicians on subjects and debates that are situated on the interface between logical and philosophical theories of truth. The volume is intended for graduate students in philosophy and in logic who want an introduction to contemporary research in this area, as well as for professional philosophers and logicians

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

Contemporary Methods for Investigating the Concept of Truth An Introduction

Is There a Problem about the Deflationary Theory of Truth?

A Defense of Minimalism

Modalized Disquotationalism

Deflation and Conservation

Metaworlds: A Possible-Worlds Semantics for Truth

Ramsey and the Correspondence Theory

Truth, Provability, and Naive Criteria

Partial Truth

An Axiomatic Investigation of Provability as a Primitive Predicate

Bibliography

Index of Persons

Subject Index

Notes on the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 11, 2014).

ISBN:

3-11-033266-3

OCLC:

979583339