Basic Questions on Truth

2000
ISBN: 978-0-7923-6224-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Episteme

The task of the book is not to give a survey of the main theories on truth found in the literature. There are several books available which do this: The one of David for Deflationist (and Disquotational) Theories of Truth; that of Chapuis for Revision Theories of Truth; that of Kirkham for Correspondence Theories and several others; that ofRescher for Coherence Theories of Truth. Moreover the book is not an analy­ sis just of Tar ski's theory, like that of Moreno or the respective chapters in Kirkham, though Tarski's theory plays an important role in the whole work presented. The task of the book is to give a detailed answer to some basic questions on truth which have been perennial problems through the centuries and are still discussed today. The answer is given in the light of our knowledge today and with the help of modem logic. But the book explicitly aims at connecting recent problems with re­ lated ones in the whole history of philosophy. The method to incorporate important philosophers of the tradition into the analysis is that of disputation, i. e. of putting some of their main thesis into objections or counterobjections pro or contra a posi­ tive answer to the respective question. After the pros and cons are given a detailed answer to the question is proposed and finally commentaries and corrections are given to the objections and counterobjections in the light of the proposed answer.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weingartner, P.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

One Is it appropriate to ask “What is truth”?.- Two Is it appropriate to ask for the meaning or for the definition of the expression “truth”, “the true” or “true”?.- Three Is the expression true superfluous and/or not a predicate?.- Four Can the rules of a deductive system be called true or false?.- Five Are definitions true or false?.- Six Judgements, propositions, sentences.- Seven Is a sentence true iff it corresponds to reality.- Eight Are there negative facts or properties?.- Nine Can a false theory be nearer to the truth than another false theory?.- Ten Ens et verum convertuntur?.- References.- Name index.