Truth, Reference, and Content - Tapa blanda

Tagle-Marroquin, Jorge Rolando

 
9783843357609: Truth, Reference, and Content
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ISBN 10: 3843357609 ISBN 13: 9783843357609
Editorial: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Sinopsis

In this book some of the many important issues on truth and meaning are discussed. A prominent one is the nature of truth, or lack thereof, in the views of the American philosophers Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, Hartry Field, and Paul Horwich. The much discussed connection between truth and meaning, which these philosophers accommodate, exploit, or try to refute in their views, is examined in several respects. By contrasting Quine’s Disquotationalism, Davidson’s Unified Theory, Field’s Deflationism, and Horwich’s Minimalism with a hypothesis, a kind of litmus test, suggested mainly by the ancient and pre-theoretical intuition that our true statements depend upon what we mean and how the world is, the argument is carried out. A conclusion is that it is far from clear that our intuition has been shown to be out of place in philosophical theory.

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Reseña del editor

In this book some of the many important issues on truth and meaning are discussed. A prominent one is the nature of truth, or lack thereof, in the views of the American philosophers Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, Hartry Field, and Paul Horwich. The much discussed connection between truth and meaning, which these philosophers accommodate, exploit, or try to refute in their views, is examined in several respects. By contrasting Quine's Disquotationalism, Davidson's Unified Theory, Field's Deflationism, and Horwich's Minimalism with a hypothesis, a kind of litmus test, suggested mainly by the ancient and pre-theoretical intuition that our true statements depend upon what we mean and how the world is, the argument is carried out. A conclusion is that it is far from clear that our intuition has been shown to be out of place in philosophical theory.

Biografía del autor

The author obtained his PhD from King’s College, London. Currently, he is “Profesor Titular de Filosofía” at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas in México. The author has also edited a compilation on the subject of mental causation (in Spanish) and works on other themes in philosophy of mind and epistemology.

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Editorial
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
3843357609
ISBN 13 
9783843357609
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Número de páginas
244
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