The Oxford handbook of truth / edited by Michael Glanzberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glanzberg, Michael, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Handbook of truth

Truth

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A team of 36 leading experts present the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They survey how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present; offer critical assessments of the standard theories of truth; and explore the role of truth in logic, language, metaphysics, ethics, science, and mathematics.

Contents:

Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood / Jan Szaif

The Identity Theory of Truth / Stewart Candlish, Nic Damnjanovic

The Pragmatist Theory of Truth / Cheryl Misak

Truth Bearers and Proposition / Jeffrey C. King

Truthmakers / Ross P. Cameron

Truth, Objectivity, and Realism / Sanford Shieh

Truth in Fictionalism / Alexis Burgess

A Logical Theory of Truthmakers and Falsitymakers / Neil Tennant

Bivalence and Determinacy / Ian Rumfitt

Deflationist Truth / Jody Azzouni

Relative Truth / Herman Cappelen, Torfinn Thomesen Huvenes

What is Truth in the Middle Ages: An Overview / Margaret Cameron

Truth and Truthlikeness / Graham Oddie

Truth and The Sciences / Anjan Chakravartty

Moral Truth / Mark Schroeder

Truth in Mathematics / Øystein Linnebo

Semantic Paradoxes: A Psychohistory of Self-Defeat / Roy A. Sorensen

Tarski on the Concept of Truth / Greg Ray

The Axiomatic Approach to Truth / Kentaro Fujimoto, Volker Halbach

Truth, Non-Classical Logic, and Paraconsistency / Jc Beall, David Ripley

Early Modern Theories of Truth / Alan H. Nelson

Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox / Keith Simmons

Truth Pluralism / Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen, Michael P. Lynch

Idealism and the Question of Truth / Clinton Tolley

Truth in British Idealism and its Analytic Critics / Thomas Baldwin

Facts and Propositions: Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey / Peter Sullivan, Colin Johnston

Truth in Frege / Richard G. Heck, Robert May

The Coherence Theory of Truth / Ralph Walker

The Correspondence Theory of Truth / Marian David.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780191749773

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Restricted for use by site license.