Truth and Realism

Zusammenfassung Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large. Introduction; I. TRUTH AND RELATIVISM; 1. What is Relativism?; 2. True Relativism; 3. Modelling the 'Ordinary View'; II. REALISM AND ANTIREALISM; 4. Realism. What's Left?; 5. Scientific Realism; 6. Scientific Realism as an Issue in Semantics; 7. Abundant Truth in an Austere World; 8. Context, Vagueness, and Ontology; III. METHODOLOGY AND THE NATURE OF THE DEBATES; 9. Must Do Better; 10. A World Without Isms; 11. Horwich's World; 12. Intuitions and Truth; 13. Trusting Intuitions; 14. Truth and Realism: Remarks at St Andrews

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• Authors: Patrick (University of St Andrews) Lync Greenough, Patrick Lynch Greenough
• Assisted by: Patrick Greenough (Editor), Patrick (University of St Andrews) Greenough (Editor), Greenough Patrick (Editor), Michael P. Lynch (Editor), Michael P. (University of Connecticut) Lynch (Editor), Lynch Michael P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2006
• EAN: 9780199288878
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928887-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge