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- Truth
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
summary
This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, Burgess and Burgess cover a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth-value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from Alfred Tarski to Saul Kripke and beyond. The book provides a rich picture of contemporary philosophical theorizing about truth, one that will be essential reading for philosophy students as well as philosophers specializing in other areas.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Chapter One. Introduction
- pp. 1-15
- Chapter Two. Tarski
- pp. 16-32
- Chapter Three. Deflationism
- pp. 33-51
- Chapter Four. Indeterminacy
- pp. 52-67
- Chapter Five. Realism
- pp. 68-82
- Chapter Six. Antirealism
- pp. 83-101
- Chapter Seven. Kripke
- pp. 102-115
- Chapter Eight. Insolubility?
- pp. 116-134
- Further Reading
- pp. 135-141
- Bibliography
- pp. 143-152
Additional Information
ISBN
9781400838691
Related ISBN(s)
9780691144016, 9780691163673
MARC Record
OCLC
711000217
Pages
176
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No