Tarskian Turn - Deflationism and Axiomatic Truth

Informationen zum Autor Leon Horsten is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK. Klappentext In The Tarskian Turn, Leon Horsten investigates the relationship between formal theories of truth and contemporary philosophical approaches to truth. The work of mathematician and logician Alfred Tarski (1901¿1983) marks the transition from substantial to deflationary views about truth. Deflationism--which holds that the notion of truth is light and insubstantial--can be and has been made more precise in multiple ways. Crucial in making the deflationary intuition precise is its relation to formal or logical aspects of the notion of truth. Allowing that semantical theories of truth may have heuristic value, in The Tarskian Turn Horsten focuses on axiomatic theories of truth developed since Tarski and their connection to deflationism Zusammenfassung A philosopher proposes a new deflationist view of truth! based on contemporary proof-theoretic approaches.

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• Authors: Leon Horsten, Leon (Professor Horsten, Leon (University of Bristol) Horsten
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780262015868
• ISBN: 978-0-262-01586-8
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous