Truth and Ontology

Zusatztext Review from previous edition Excellent new book...This is an important contemporary debate! and Merricks' book is a very important move within it. Informationen zum Autor Trenton Merricks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia Klappentext A central question in philosophy is whether and how truth depends on the world. In isolation this question is so abstract that it is hard to address in an illuminating way. Instead! Trenton Merricks looks at how answers to this question bear on a variety of other philosophical debates. Zusammenfassung A central question in philosophy is whether and how truth depends on the world. Trenton Merricks considers the question not in abstract isolation but in the context of its implications for a variety of other philosophical debates. He casts new light not only on the nature of truth but on these philosophical debates themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Truthmaker and Making True 2: Truthmakers 3: Negative Existentials 4: Truth Supervenes on Being 5: Modality 6: Presentism 7: Subjunctive Conditionals 8: Theory of Truth

Product details

• Authors: Trenton Merricks, Trenton (University of Virginia) Merricks
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2009
• EAN: 9780199566235
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956623-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works