Truth and Realism

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-928888-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenough, Patrick

Lynch, Michael P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I. Truth and Relativism

- 1: Paul Boghossian: What is Relativism?

- 2: Crispin Wright: True Relativism

- 3: JC Beall: Modelling the 'Ordinary View'

- II. Realism and Antirealism

- 4: Michael Williams: Realism. What's Left?

- 5: Michael Devitt: Scientific Realism

- 6: Christopher Gauker: Scientific Realism as an Issue in Semantics

- 7: Terence Horgan and Matjaz Potrc: Abundant Truth in an Austere World

- 8: Mark Richard: Context, Vagueness, and Ontology

- III. Methodology and the Nature of the Debates

- 9: Timothy Williamson: Must Do Better

- 10: Paul Horwich: A World Without Isms

- 11: Marian David: Horwich's World

- 12: Ernest Sosa: Intuitions and Truth

- 13: Michael P. Lynch: Trusting Intuitions

- 14: Richard Rorty: Truth and Realism: Remarks at St Andrews