The Epistemic Lightness of Truth

Deflationism and its Logic

Cezary Cieśliński (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-19765-7 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Providing an up-to-date discussion and defence of deflationism about truth, addressing recent philosophical developments in axiomatic truth theories and evaluating the notion of the innocence of truth, this volume will benefit both students and scholars of philosophy, particularly those interested in logic and in conceptions of truth.

This book analyses and defends the deflationist claim that there is nothing deep about our notion of truth. According to this view, truth is a 'light' and innocent concept, devoid of any essence which could be revealed by scientific inquiry. Cezary Cieśliński considers this claim in light of recent formal results on axiomatic truth theories, which are crucial for understanding and evaluating the philosophical thesis of the innocence of truth. Providing an up-to-date discussion and original perspectives on this central and controversial issue, his book will be important for those with a background in logic who are interested in formal truth theories and in current philosophical debates about the deflationary conception of truth.

Cezary Cieśliński is a member of the Institute of Philosophy at Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland. His research, which focuses on truth theories, logic and philosophy of language, has been published in journals including Mind and the Journal of Philosophical Logic.

Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Approaches to truth; Part I. Disquotation: 3. Disquotational theories; 4. Why do we need disquotational truth?; 5. The generalisation problem; Part II. Conservativity: 6. (Non)conservativity of disquotation; 7. CT− and CT: conservativity properties; 8. Other compositional truth theories; 9. Conservativity: philosophical motivations; 10. Maximal conservative theories; 11. The conservativeness argument; Part III. Reflection Principles: 12. The strength of reflection principles; 13. Deflationism and truth-theoretical strength.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 251 mm
Gewicht	740 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	1-107-19765-1 / 1107197651
ISBN-13	978-1-107-19765-7 / 9781107197657
Zustand	Neuware