Truth and the World - An Explanationist Theory

Truth and the World is an important contribution to debates about truth and truthmaker theory as well as metametaphysics, in the metaphysics of time and the metaphysics of mathematics and is essential reading for students and scholars engaged in the study of these topics.

List of contents

Introduction

1. In the beginning, there was Truthmaker

2. Dubious by nature

3. Molnar & negative ontology

4. Modern, Negative Metaphysics

5. Priority

6. Aptness

7. From truth to explanation

8. Truth and metaphysics

9. Truth and negative existential propositions

10. Applications.

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Jonathan Tallant is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Metaphysics: An Introduction (2nd Edition 2017), and, with Andrew Fisher, of How to get Philosophy Students Talking (Routledge, 2015).

Summary

Truth and the World is an important contribution to debates about truth and truthmaker theory as well as metametaphysics, in the metaphysics of time and the metaphysics of mathematics and is essential reading for students and scholars engaged in the study of these topics.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Tallant, Tallant Jonathan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367594305
• ISBN: 978-0-367-59430-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology