Epistemic Lightness of Truth - Deflationism and Its Logic

This volume explores the deflationary claim of the innocence of truth, taking into account recent results on axiomatic truth theories.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Approaches to truth; Part I. Disquotation: 3. Disquotational theories; 4. Why do we need disquotational truth?; 5. The generalisation problem; Part II. Conservativity: 6. (Non)conservativity of disquotation; 7. CT¿ and CT: conservativity properties; 8. Other compositional truth theories; 9. Conservativity: philosophical motivations; 10. Maximal conservative theories; 11. The conservativeness argument; Part III. Reflection Principles: 12. The strength of reflection principles; 13. Deflationism and truth-theoretical strength.

About the author

Cezary Cieśliński is a member of the Institute of Philosophy at Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland. His research, which focuses on truth theories, logic and philosophy of language, has been published in journals including Mind and the Journal of Philosophical Logic.

Summary

Providing an up-to-date discussion and defence of deflationism about truth, addressing recent philosophical developments in axiomatic truth theories and evaluating the notion of the innocence of truth, this volume will benefit both students and scholars of philosophy, particularly those interested in logic and in conceptions of truth.

Product details

• Authors: Cie&, Cezary Cie&347;li&324;ski, Cezary Cieslinski, Cezary Cieśliński
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781316647837
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64783-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge