Spandrels of Truth

Jc Beall (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

170 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-926874-0 (ISBN)

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Jc Beall presents a new theory of 'transparent' truth. A prominent philosophical view of truth is as an entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons. Beall's modest dialetheic theory shows how the notorious paradoxes associated with transparency can be dealt with.

Among the various conceptions of truth is one according to which 'is true' is a transparent, entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons. This device, when introduced into the language, brings about truth-theoretic paradoxes (particularly, the notorious Liar and Curry paradoxes). The options for dealing with the paradoxes while preserving the full transparency of 'true' are limited. In Spandrels of Truth, Beall concisely presents and defends a modest, so-called dialetheic theory of transparent truth.

Jc Beall is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, a member of the UConn Group in Logic, and an Associate Fellow of Arché, the AHRC Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics, and Epistemology. Though having wide philosophical interests, Beall has published mainly in philosophical logic and the philosophy of logic.

1. The Basic Picture ; 2. Suitable Conditional ; 3. Just True ; 4. A Look at the Field ; 5. Objections and Replies ; 6. Appendix Overlap Without Inconsistency? ; References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.4.2011
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 281 mm
Gewicht	256 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-926874-6 / 0199268746
ISBN-13	978-0-19-926874-0 / 9780199268740
Zustand	Neuware