| Author | : D. M. Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2004-05-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521547239 |
This book, first published in 2004, makes a compelling case for truthmaking and its importance in philosophy.
| Author | : Jamin Asay |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2020-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108499880 |
Demonstrates how truthmaking can be used to make progress all across philosophy, but without its usual theoretical baggage.
| Author | : Helen Beebee |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2005-08-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199283567 |
The concept of truthmaking is attracting much attention in contemporary metaphysics. This work asks how the truthmaker principle should be formulated, whether it is well motivated, whether it genuinely has the explanatory roles claimed for it, and whether more modest principles might serve just as well.
| Author | : Mark Jago |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198823819 |
Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.
| Author | : Trenton Merricks |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2007-04-19 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191525537 |
That there are no white ravens is true because there are no white ravens. And so there is a sense in which that truth 'depends on the world'. But this sort of dependence is trivial. After all, it does not imply that there is anything that is that truth's 'truthmaker'. Nor does it imply that something exists to which that truth corresponds. Nor does it imply that there are properties whose exemplification grounds that truth. Trenton Merricks explores whether and how truth depends substantively on the world or on things or on being. And he takes a careful look at philosophical debates concerning, among other things, modality, time, and dispositions. He looks at these debates because any account of truth's substantive dependence on being has implications for them. And these debates likewise have implications for how and whether truth depends on being. Along the way, Merricks makes a number of new points about each of these debates that are of independent interest, of interest apart from the question of truth's dependence on being. Truth and Ontology concludes that some truths do not depend on being in any substantive way at all. One result of this conclusion is that it is a mistake to oppose a philosophical theory merely because it violates truth's alleged substantive dependence on being. Another result is that the correspondence theory of truth is false and, more generally, that truth itself is not a relation of any sort between truth-bearers and that which 'makes them true'.
| Author | : Jonathan Tallant |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2017-10-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1351388509 |
How do we explain the truth of true propositions? Truthmaker theory is the branch of metaphysics that explores the relationships between what is true and what exists. It plays an important role in contemporary debates about the nature of metaphysics and metaphysical enquiry. In this book Jonathan Tallant argues, controversially, that we should reject truthmaker theory. In its place he argues for an 'explanationist' approach. Drawing on a deflationary theory of truth he shows that it allows us to explain the truth of true propositions and respond to recent arguments that purport to show otherwise. He augments this with a distinction between internally and externally quantified claims: externally quantified claims are claims that quantify over elements of our ontology that play an indispensable explanatory role; internally quantified claims do not. He deploys this union of deflationism and a distinction between kinds of quantification to pursue metaphysical inquiry, sketching the implications for a number of first-order debates, including those in the philosophy of time, modality and mathematics, and also shows how this explanationist model can be used to solve the key problems that afflicted truthmaker theory. Truth and the World is an important contribution to debates about truth and truthmaker theory as well as metametaphysics, the metaphysics of time and the metaphysics of mathematics, and is essential reading for students and scholars engaged in the study of these topics.
| Author | : D. M. Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2010-07-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199590613 |
This book tries to present in brief compass a metaphysical system, matured (as is hoped) over many years. By metaphysics is understood an account of the fundamental categories of being, such notions as property, relation, causality. These notions are more abstract than the results of scientific inquiry, and are controversial among scientists as well as among philosophers. The book sprang from lectures given to graduate students, and has deliberately been kept at an informal level. It includes some explanations not required in a book for professional philosophers. The argument is developed in sixteen short chapters. It is argued that the world is a world of states of affairs, involving universals and particulars. The notion of finding suitable truthmakers for truths grows in importance as the book proceeds.
| Author | : Bob Hale |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 1176 |
| Release | : 2017-02-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1118972082 |
“Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.
| Author | : Hallvard Lillehammer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134533446 |
Real Metaphysics brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Hugh Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics.
