Truth and Truth-Making

Informationen zum Autor E. J. Lowe, A. Rami Klappentext Presents an introduction to the theory of truth-making! which outlines truth-maker relations! the ontological category of truth-making entities! and the scope of a truth-maker theory. Zusammenfassung Presents an introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making entities, and the scope of a truth-maker theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: truth and truth-making! A. Rami Part I: Setting the stage 2. Truth and the truth-maker principle in 1921! Kevin Mulligan 3. Truthmakers! Kevin Mulligan! Peter Simons and Barry Smith 4. Truth-makers! entailment and necessity! Greg Restall 5. Postscript to "Truth-makers! entailment and necessity"! Greg Restall 6. Truth-making and difference-making! David Lewis 7. The general theory of truth-making! D. M. Armstrong Part II: The current debate 8. Truth-making and correspondence! Marian David 9. Facts and relations: the matter of ontology and of truth-making! Herbert Hochberg 10. Being and truth! Paul Horwich 11. An essentialist approach to truth-making! E. J. Lowe 12. Are there irreducibly relational facts?! Josh Parsons 13. Why truthmakers! Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 14. Postscript to "Why truth-makers"! Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: E. J. Lowe, E. J. Rami Lowe, Lowe E. J., A. Rami, Rami A.
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.11.2008
• EAN: 9781844651450
• ISBN: 978-1-84465-145-0
• Seiten: 288
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy