Truth Without Objectivity

Informationen zum Autor Max Kölbel is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext Truth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'. KAlbel examines the standard solutions to the conflict implicit in this view, demonstrating their inadequacy and developing instead his own relativist theory of truth. The mainstream view of meaning assumes that understanding a sentence's meaning implies knowledge of the conditions required for it to be true. This view is challenged by taste judgements, which have meaning, but seem to be neither true nor false. Zusammenfassung Kölbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Truth-Conditional Semantics; Chapter 2 Excess Objectivity; Chapter 3 Revisionism; Chapter 4 Expressivism; Chapter 5 Soft Truth; Chapter 6 Relative Truth and Linguistic Communication; Chapter 7 Defence of Relativism;

Product details

• Authors: Max Kolbel, Max Kölbel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2002
• EAN: 9780415272445
• ISBN: 978-0-415-27244-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: International Library of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: logic