Deflationism and Paradox

Jc Beall, Bradley Armour-Garb (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-954492-9 (ISBN)

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A distinguished team of contributors explore deflationist accounts of truth and the extent to which, if at all, they can accommodate paradox. The volume will be of interest to philosophers of logic, philosophers of language, and anyone working on truth.

Deflationist accounts of truth are widely held in contemporary philosophy: they seek to show that truth is a dispensable concept with no metaphysical depth. However, logical paradoxes present problems for deflationists, which their work has struggled to overcome. In this volume of fourteen original essays, a distinguished team of contributors explore the extent to which, if at all, deflationism can accommodate paradox. The volume will be of interest to philosophers of logic, philosophers of language, and anyone working on truth.

JC Beall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Bradley Armour-Garb is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Albany, SUNY

Introduction ; 1. Transparent disquotationalism ; 2. Is the Liar sentence both true and false? ; 3. Spiking the field artillery ; 4. Variations on a theme by Yablo ; 5. A minimalist critique of Tarski on truth ; 6. Minimalism, epistemicism, and paradox ; 7. Minimalists about truth can (and should) be epistemicists, and it helps if they are revision theorists too ; 8. Minimalism, deflationism, and paradoxes ; 9. Do the paradoxes pose a special problem for deflationism? ; 10. Semantics for deflationists ; 11. How significant is the Liar? ; 12. The deflationists' axioms for truth ; 13. Naive truth and sophisticated logic ; 14. Anaphorically unrestricted quantifiers and paradoxes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.5.2008
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 234 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-954492-1 / 0199544921
ISBN-13	978-0-19-954492-9 / 9780199544929
Zustand	Neuware