| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 808 pages) |
| Series |
[Oxford handbooks] |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood / Jan Szaif -- The Identity Theory of Truth / Stewart Candlish, Nic Damnjanovic -- The Pragmatist Theory of Truth / Cheryl Misak -- Truth Bearers and Proposition / Jeffrey C. King -- Truthmakers / Ross P. Cameron -- Truth, Objectivity, and Realism / Sanford Shieh -- Truth in Fictionalism / Alexis Burgess -- A Logical Theory of Truthmakers and Falsitymakers / Neil Tennant -- Bivalence and Determinacy / Ian Rumfitt -- Deflationist Truth / Jody Azzouni -- Relative Truth / Herman Cappelen, Torfinn Thomesen Huvenes -- What is Truth in the Middle Ages: An Overview / Margaret Cameron -- Truth and Truthlikeness / Graham Oddie -- Truth and The Sciences / Anjan Chakravartty -- Moral Truth / Mark Schroeder -- Truth in Mathematics / Øystein Linnebo -- Semantic Paradoxes: A Psychohistory of Self-Defeat / Roy A. Sorensen -- Tarski on the Concept of Truth / Greg Ray -- The Axiomatic Approach to Truth / Kentaro Fujimoto, Volker Halbach -- Truth, Non-Classical Logic, and Paraconsistency / Jc Beall, David Ripley -- Early Modern Theories of Truth / Alan H. Nelson -- Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox / Keith Simmons -- Truth Pluralism / Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen, Michael P. Lynch -- Idealism and the Question of Truth / Clinton Tolley -- Truth in British Idealism and its Analytic Critics / Thomas Baldwin -- Facts and Propositions: Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey / Peter Sullivan, Colin Johnston -- Truth in Frege / Richard G. Heck, Robert May -- The Coherence Theory of Truth / Ralph Walker -- The Correspondence Theory of Truth / Marian David |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Series statement from jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Truth.
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truth.
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Truth.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glanzberg, Michael, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191749773 |
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019174977X |
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9780191502668 |
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0191502669 |
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