Truthmakers

The Contemporary Debate

Helen Beebee, Julian Dodd (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-928356-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Contains essays on the topic: how the truthmaker principle should be formulated, whether it is well motivated, whether it genuinely has the explanatory roles claimed for it, and whether more modest principles might serve just as well.

Inhalt

1. Introduction ; 2. Why Truthmakers? ; 3. Truthmaking Without Truthmaker Entities ; 4. Realism Beyond Correspondence ; 5. Truthmaking Without Truthmakers ; 6. So Where's The Explanation? ; 7. Truthmakers and Explanation ; 8. Lewis's Animadversions on the Truthmakers Principle ; 9. Armstrong on Truthmaking ; 10. Truthmakers, the Past, and the Future

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2005
• Reihe/Serie: Mind Association Occasional Series
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 162 x 245 mm
• Gewicht: 447 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• ISBN-10: 0-19-928356-7 / 0199283567
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928356-9 / 9780199283569
• Zustand: Neuware