[PDF] Truth And Realism eBook

Author : Patrick Greenough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199288885

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Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.

Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1501720554

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One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of truth. William P. Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia," Greek for truth). This idea holds that the truth value of a statement (belief or proposition) depends on whether what the statement is about is as the statement says it is. Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam are two of the prominent and widely influential contemporary philosophers whose anti-realist ideas Alston attacks.

Author : Richard A. Fumerton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780742512832

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Defending a realism about truth, Fumerton (philosophy, U. of Iowa) argues that the most plausible version of realism is the correspondence theory of truth, and that only by including in one's ontology the critical relation of correspondence between truth bearers and truth makers can one avoid an implausible metaphysics of possibilia in a realist analysis of falsehood. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 1997-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691011875

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In a provocative thesis, philosophy professor Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world and for a corresponding notion of truthcontrary to the opinions of anti-realists such as Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and others. This second edition includes a new Afterword by the author.

Author : Paul M. Livingston
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Ontology
ISBN : 9780810135192

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In the Logic of Being: Realism, Truth, and Time, the influential philosopher Paul M. Livingston explores and illuminates truth, time, and their relationship by employing methods from both Continental and analytic philosophy.

Author : Stathis Psillos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134619820

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Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track. This book argues that the history of science does not undermine this notion, suggesting it as the best philosophical account of science.

Author : Crispin Wright
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674045386

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Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of “realism” in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical “deflationary” conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the “deflationary” conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.

Author : K. Brad Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108415210

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Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science. Shows the historical evidence and logical challenges facing scientific realism.

Author : Tim Button
Publisher :
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0199672172

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Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and we cannot hope to say exactly where.