Spandrels of Truth

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-926873-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Among the various conceptions of truth is one according to which 'is true' is a transparent, entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons. This device, when introduced into the language, brings about truth-theoretic paradoxes (particularly, the notorious Liar and Curry paradoxes). The options for dealing with the paradoxes while preserving the full transparency of 'true' are limited. In Spandrels of Truth, Beall concisely presents and defends a modest, so-called dialetheic theory of transparent truth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beall, Jc

Beall, J. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: The Basic Picture

- 2: Suitable Conditional

- 3: Just True

- 4: A Look at the Field

- 5: Objections and Replies

- 6: Appendix Overlap Without Inconsistency?

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Jc Beall is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, a member of the UConn Group in Logic, and an Associate Fellow of Arché, the AHRC Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics, and Epistemology. Though having wide philosophical interests, Beall has published mainly in philosophical logic and the philosophy of logic.