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Understanding Truth » Read Now
by Scott Soames. 268 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. The main questions investigated include "Why do we need a truth predicate at all?", "What theoretical tasks does it allow us to accomplish?"...
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Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. The main questions investigated include "Why do we need a truth predicate at all?", "What theoretical tasks does it allow us to accomplish?", and "How must we understand the content of any predicate capable of accomplishing these tasks?". The main aim of the book is to integrate and extend the most important insight on truth from a variety of sources.
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Truth: A Primer » Read Now
by Frederick F. Schmitt. 252 pgs.

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...TRUTH: A PRIMER TRUTH: A PRIMER Frederick F. Schmitt UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN...3 Pragmatism 77 I. The Pragmatic Theory of Truth , 78 II. Arguments for...
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Truth » Read Now
by Paul Horwich. 158 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

"Subtle, penetrating, and ingenious...Everyone interested in philosophy is in his debt." -- Michael Dummett. What is truth? Paul Horwich advocates the controversial theory of minimalism, that is that the nature of truth is captured in the trivial fact that each proposition specifies its own...
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"Subtle, penetrating, and ingenious...Everyone interested in philosophy is in his debt." -- Michael Dummett. What is truth? Paul Horwich advocates the controversial theory of minimalism, that is that the nature of truth is captured in the trivial fact that each proposition specifies its own condition for being true, and that truth is therefore an entirely mundane and unpuzzling concept. The first edition of Truth, published in 1980, established itself as the best account of minimalism and as an excellent introduction to the debate for students. For this new edition, Horwich has refined and developed his treatment of the subject in the light of subsequent discussions, while preserving the distinctive format that made the earlier edition so successful.
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Conceptions of Truth » Read Now
by Wolfgang Kunne. 493 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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What Is Truth? » Read Now
by Peter Vardy. 202 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Charting a course between opposing movements of relativism and religious fundamentalism, this book draws on a broad range of thinkers and religious beliefs to argue for the case of truth.
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Meaning and Truth: Essential Readings in Modern Semantics » Read Now
by Jay L. Garfield, Murray Kiteley. 638 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Reason, Truth, and Self: The Postmodern Reconditioned » Read Now
by Michael Luntley. 248 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,t ruth and self; this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism. This has led them to ignore...
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Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,t ruth and self; this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism. This has led them to ignore the very real problems raised by the postmodernists. Luntley offers a clear and careful exposition of how rational debate survives despite the Enlightenment's failings. Reason, Truth and Self covers many of the key questions of our age:* How rational is science?* Can we really know the truth about ourselves and the world?* What is the nature of the mind?* Can we know the difference between right and wrong? Reason, Truth and Self is ideal for courses in philosophy and the social sciences.
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Education, Knowledge, and Truth: Beyond the Postmodern Impasse » Read Now
by David Carr. 251 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Education, Entire Library

Seeking to reinstate the importance of knowledge, truth and curriculum in contemporary intellectual debate, this book fills a major gap in the literature and greatly advances an exciting area of research.
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Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation » Read Now
by Cheryl Misak. 182 pgs.

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Cheryl Misak argues that truth ought to be reinstated to a central position in moral and political philosophy. She argues that the correct account of truth is one found in a certain kind of pragmatism: a true belief is one upon which inquiry could not improve, a belief which would not be defeated by...
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Cheryl Misak argues that truth ought to be reinstated to a central position in moral and political philosophy. She argues that the correct account of truth is one found in a certain kind of pragmatism: a true belief is one upon which inquiry could not improve, a belief which would not be defeated by experience and argument. This account is not only an improvement on the views of central figures such as Rawls and Habermas, but it also makes sense of the idea that, despite conflict, pluralism, and the expression of difference, our moral and political beliefs aim at truth and can be subject to criticism.Anyone interested in a fresh discussion of political theory and philosophy will find this a fascinating read.
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Truth and Paradox: Solving the Riddles » Read Now
by Tim Maudlin. 209 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth » Read Now
by C. J. Misak. 186 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In this book, Misak argues for and elucidates the pragmatic account of truth, paying attention both to Peirce's texts and to the requirements of a...
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C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In this book, Misak argues for and elucidates the pragmatic account of truth, paying attention both to Peirce's texts and to the requirements of a suitable account of truth. An important argument of the book is that we must be sensitive to the difference between offering a definition of truth and engaging in a distinctively pragmatic project. The pragmatic project spells out the relationship between truth and inquiry; it articulates the consequences of a statement's being true. The existence of a distinct pragmatic enterprise has implications for the status of the pragmatic account of truth and for the way in which philosophy should be conducted.
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The Liar Speaks the Truth: A Defense of the Revision Theory of Truth » Read Now
by Aladdin M. Yaqub. 160 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

In this book, Yaq=ub describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemingly conflicting intuitions about truth. This conception takes the Tarskian biconditionals (such as "The sentence 'Johannes loved Clara' is true if...
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In this book, Yaq=ub describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemingly conflicting intuitions about truth. This conception takes the Tarskian biconditionals (such as "The sentence 'Johannes loved Clara' is true if and only if Johannes loved Clara") as correctly and completely defining the notion of truth. The semantical theory, which is called the revision theory, that emerges from this conception paints a metaphysical picture of truth as a property whose applicability is given by a revision process rather than by a fixed extension. The main advantage of this revision process is its ability to explain why truth seems in many cases almost redundant, in others substantial, and yet in others paradoxical (as in the famous Liar). Yaq=ub offers a comprehensive defense of the revision theory of truth by developing consistent and adequate formal semantics for languages in which all sorts of problematic sentences (Liar and company) can be constructed. Yaq=ub concludes by introducing a logic of truth that further demonstrates the adequacy of the revision theory.
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Truth and Reality: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge » Read Now
by John Elof Boodin. 342 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...TRUTH AND REALITY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON...MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO TRUTH AND REALITY AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF...
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Symbolism and Truth: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge » Read Now
by Ralph Monroe Eaton. 330 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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What Is Truth?: An Essay in the Theory of Knowledge » Read Now
by Arthur Kenyon Rogers. 190 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...WHAT IS TRUTH? PUBLISHED ON THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED...THE CLASS OF 1865, YALE COLLEGE WHAT IS TRUTH? AN ESSAY IN THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE...CONTENTS Belief and the...