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Author : Stefano Predelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199695636
In this book the author presents an account of the relationships between the central semantic notions of meaning and truth.
Author : Max Kölbel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415272452
Kölbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory.
Author : Paul M. Pietroski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198812728
Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions; meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort.
Author : Hartry Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199241716
Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts.Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and propositional attitudes, five are primarily about semantic indeterminacy and other kinds of 'factual defectiveness' in our discourse, and three are primarily about issues concerning objectivity, especially in mathematics and in epistemology. The essays on truth, meaning, and the attitudes show a development from a form of correspondence theory of truth and meaning to a more deflationist perspective.The next set of papers argue that a place must be made in semantics for the idea that there are questions about which there is no fact of the matter, and address the difficulties involved in making sense of this, both within a correspondence theory of truth and meaning, and within a deflationary theory. Two papers argue that there are questions in mathematics about which there is no fact of the mattter, and draw out implications of this for the nature of mathematics. And the final paper arguesfor a view of epistemology in which it is not a purely fact-stating enterprise.This influential work by a key figure in contemporary philosophy will reward the attention of any philosopher interested in language, epistemology, or mathematics.
Author : Anil Gupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190285729
This volume reprints eight of Anil Gupta's essays, some with additional material. The essays bring a refreshing new perspective to central issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Gupta argues that logical interdependence is legitimate, and that it provides a key to understanding a variety of topics of interest to philosophers--including truth, rationality, and experience. The essays are highly accessible and provide a good introduction to ideas Gupta has been developing over the last three decades.
Author : Gillian Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199232199
The distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences - the idea that some sentences are true or false just in virtue of what they mean - is a famous focus of philosophical controversy. Gillian Russell reinvigorates the debate with a challenging new defence of the distinction, showing that it is compatible with semantic externalism.
Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780674030220
This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of truth in order to live well. Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the classics, and an even earlier engagement with the workings of grammar; in the pleasures of diagramming sentences in grade school, he locates his first glimpse into the mechanics of how we conduct the most important activities in our life--such as declaring love, asking directions, issuing orders, and telling stories. Davidson connects these essential questions with the most basic and yet hard to understand mysteries of language use--how we connect noun to verb. This is a problem that Plato and Aristotle wrestled with, and Davidson draws on their thinking to show how an understanding of linguistic behavior is critical to the formulating of a workable concept of truth. Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.
Author : Steven Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198722192
Challenges the idea that representation of how the world is should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language. Examines deflationary accounts of truth, the role of language in expressing mental states, and the normative and the natural as they relate to issues of representation.
Author : Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199697515
This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.
Author : Warren W. Wiersbe
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441232206
Books on leadership in various aspects of life and work abound. But are the principles upon which these books are grounded biblical? Do they describe the best way for Christians to lead, knowing that they function as ambassadors for Christ as they facilitate meetings, lead people, and manage projects? On Being a Leader for God covers numerous topics that are relevant to Christian leadership in this and every era, including obedience, faithfulness, character, maturity, ability, God's authority, seizing opportunities, biblical images of successful leadership, listening, the difference between a boss and a leader, change management, organizational leadership, and vision. Pastors, deacons, church leaders, and laypeople will find this book both engaging and transformative.