Truthmakers - The Contemporary Debate

Zusatztext ...any philosopher interested in the nature of truth would do well to read the papers collected here. Klappentext The concept of truthmaking is attracting much attention in contemporary metaphysics. Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd have assembled a distinguished team to contribute brand new essays on the topic: they ask, among other things, 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. This volume will be the starting point for future discussion and research. Zusammenfassung Contains essays on the topic: 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd: Introduction 2: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra: Why Truthmakers? 3: Jennifer Hornsby: Truthmaking Without Truthmaker Entities 4: Michael Morris: Realism Beyond Correspondence 5: Joseph Melia: Truthmaking Without Truthmakers 6: Chris Daly: So Where's The Explanation? 7: David Liggins: Truthmakers and Explanation 8: Fraser MacBride: Lewis's Animadversions on the Truthmakers Principle 9: Marian David: Armstrong on Truthmaking 10: Josh Parsons: Truthmakers, the Past, and the Future

Product details

• Authors: Helen (University of Manchester) Dodd Beebee, Helen Dodd Beebee
• Assisted by: Helen Beebee (Editor), Julian Dodd (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2005
• EAN: 9780199283569
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928356-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Mind Association Occasional Series; Mind Association Occasional Series; Mind Association Occasional
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works