Truth matters : realism, anti-realism and response-dependence / Christopher Norris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norris, Christopher, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 228 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2002]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The first full-length introduction to response-dependenceTruth Matters is an invaluable guide for student readers in search of a reliable introduction to response-dependence in epistemology. Setting out the issues clearly and concisely, Norris explains the both sides of the current debate and contextualises it by providing the relevant background history, including discussion of its sources and analogues in Plato, Locke, Kant and Wittgenstein. His book offers invaluable guidance for student readers in search of a reliable introductory survey of the field.Response-dependence claims to provide a 'third way' between the realist (or objectivist) conception of truth as always potentially transcending the limits of human ascertainment and the anti-realist (or verificationist) case that truth cannot possibly transcend those limits since then we could never acquire or manifest a knowledge of it.Key FeaturesClear, accessible account of some complex philosophical issuesFirst book-length study of the response-dependence debateInformative discussion of its pre-history in philosophers from Plato to Hume, Locke and KantCombines wide-ranging coverage with a clear focus and deep philosophical treatment

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Anti-realism, Scepticism, 'Constructive Empiricism'

Chapter 2 Response-Dependence: the current debate in review

Chapter 3 Green Thoughts in a Moral Shade: anti-realism, ethics and response-dependence

Chapter 4 Morals, Mathematics and Best Opinion: the Euthyphronist debate revisited

Chapter 5 Constitutional Powers: can best 'judgement' ever go wrong?

Chapter 6 Showing you Know: on Wright's 'Manifestation Principle'

Index of Names

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7136-6