The Oxford Handbook of Truth

Buch | Hardcover

822 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-955792-9 (ISBN)

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A team of 36 leading experts present the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They survey how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present; offer critical assessments of the standard theories of truth; and explore the role of truth in logic, language, metaphysics, ethics, science, and mathematics.

Truth is one of the central concepts in philosophy, and has been a perennial subject of study. Michael Glanzberg has brought together 36 leading experts from around the world to produce the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They consider how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present day, surveying major debates about truth during the emergence of analytic philosophy. They offer critical assessments of the standard theories of truth, including the coherence, correspondence, identity, and pragmatist theories. They explore the role of truth in metaphysics, with lively discussion of truthmakers, proposition, determinacy, objectivity, deflationism, fictionalism, relativism, and pluralism. Finally the handbook explores broader applications of truth in philosophy, including ethics, science, and mathematics, and reviews formal work on truth and its application to semantic paradox. This Oxford Handbook will be an invaluable resource across all areas of philosophy.

Michael Glanzberg (Ph.D. Harvard, 1997) taught at MIT, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Davis before joining Northwestern University. He works in the areas of philosophy of language, logic, and metaphysics. In philosophy of language, his recent work has focused on the nature of linguistic meaning, including such topic as the nature of quantification, how lexical items encode concepts, and relativism about linguistic content. He has also explored issues related to the interface between semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, and the role of mathematical techniques in the empirical study of language. In philosophical logic and in metaphysics, he has worked extensively on issues related to truth and paradox, and the status of unrestricted quantification.

Introduction
PART I: ANCIENT AND MODERN THEORIES OF TRUTH
1: Jan Szaif: Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood
2: Margaret Cameron: Truth in the Middle Ages
3: Alan Nelson: Early Modern Theories of Truth
4: Clinton Tolley: Idealism and the Question of Truth
PART II: TRUTH IN EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
5: Thomas Baldwin: Truth in British Idealism and its Analytic Critics
6: Peter Sullivan and Colin Johnston: Facts and Propositions: Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey
7: Richard Kimberly Heck and Robert May: Truth in Frege
PART III: THE CLASSICAL THEORIES OF TRUTH
8: Ralph C. S. Walker: The Coherence Theory of Truth
9: Marian David: The Correspondence Theory of Truth
10: Stewart Candlish and Nic Damnjanovic: The Identity Theory of Truth
11: Cheryl Misak: The Pragmatist Theory of Truth
PART IV: TRUTH IN METAPHYSICS
12: Jeffrey C. King: Truth Bearers and Proposition
13: Ross P. Cameron: Truthmakers
14: Neil Tennant: A Logical Theory of Truthmakers and Falsitymakers
15: Ian Rumfitt: Bivalence and Determinacy
16: Sanford Shieh: Truth, Objectivity, and Realism
17: Jody Azzouni: Deflationist Truth
18: Alexi Burgess: Truth in Fictionalism
19: Herman Cappelen and Torfinn Thomesen Huvenes: Relative Truth
20: Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen and Michael P. Lynch: Truth Pluralism
PART V: OTHER APPLICATIONS
21: Mark Schroeder: Moral Truth
22: Anjan Chakravartty: Truth and the Sciences
23: Graham Oddie: Truth and Truthlikeness
24: Øystein Linnebo: Truth in Mathematics
PART VI: FORMAL THEORIES AND PARADOX
25: Roy A. Sorensen: Semantic Paradoxes: A Psychohistory of Self-Defeat
26: Greg Ray: Tarski on the Concept of Truth
27: Kentaro Fujimoto and Volker Halbach: The Axiomatic Approach to Truth
28: Jc Beall and David Ripley: Non-classical Theories of Truth
29: Keith Simmons: Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1558 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-955792-6 / 0199557926
ISBN-13	978-0-19-955792-9 / 9780199557929
Zustand	Neuware