Axiomatic Theories of Truth

Volker Halbach (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

362 Seiten

2014 | 2nd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-42442-5 (ISBN)

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Volker Halbach examines the most important axiomatizations of truth, explores their properties and shows how the logical results impinge on the philosophical topics related to truth. His book will be indispensable reading for any graduate or professional philosopher in theories of truth.

At the centre of the traditional discussion of truth is the question of how truth is defined. Recent research, especially with the development of deflationist accounts of truth, has tended to take truth as an undefined primitive notion governed by axioms, while the liar paradox and cognate paradoxes pose problems for certain seemingly natural axioms for truth. In this book, Volker Halbach examines the most important axiomatizations of truth, explores their properties and shows how the logical results impinge on the philosophical topics related to truth. In particular, he shows that the discussion on topics such as deflationism about truth depends on the solution of the paradoxes. His book is an invaluable survey of the logical background to the philosophical discussion of truth, and will be indispensable reading for any graduate or professional philosopher in theories of truth.

Volker Halbach is a Reader in Philosophy at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College.

Preface; 1. Foundations; 2. Typed truth; 3. Type-free truth; 4. Ways to the truth; 5. Index of systems; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.2.2014
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	1-107-42442-9 / 1107424429
ISBN-13	978-1-107-42442-5 / 9781107424425
Zustand	Neuware