Burgess Truth

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3869-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 176 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Burgess, Alexis G.

Burgess, John P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Starred (*) technical sections optional

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1

1.1 Traditional Theories 2

1.2 Contemporary Theories 4

1.3 Paradoxes 5

1.4 Plan 7

1.5 Sentences 10

1.6 Propositions 12

CHAPTER TWO: Tarski 16

2.1 "Semantic" Truth 16

2.2 Object Language vs Metalanguage 18

2.3 Recursive Definition 22

2.4* Direct Definition 24

2.5* Self-Reference 28

2.6* Model Theory 29

CHAPTER THREE: Deflationism 33

3.1 Redundancy 34

3.2 Other Radical Theories 38

3.3 Disquotation 41

3.4 Other Moderate Theories 44

3.5 Sloganeering 47

3.6 Reference 49

CHAPTER FOUR: Indeterminacy 52

4.1 Presupposition 53

4.2 Vagueness 54

4.3 Denial, Disqualification, Deviance 55

4.4 Doublespeak, Dependency, Defeatism 59

4.5 Relativity 61

4.6 Local vs Global 65

CHAPTER FIVE: Realism 68

5.1 Realism vs Deflationism 68

5.2 Correspondence Theories 70

5.3 Truthmaker Theories 72

5.4 Physicalism 74

5.5 Utility 77

5.6 Normativity 79

CHAPTER SIX: Antirealism 83

6.1 Meaning and Truth 84

6.2 Davidsonianism 87

6.3 Dummettianism vs Davidsonianism 90

6.4 Dummettianism vs Deflationism 93

6.5 Holism 96

6.6 Pluralism 97

CHAPTER SEVEN: Kripke 102

7.1 Kripke vs Tarski 103

7.2 The Minimum Fixed Point 105

7.3 Ungroundedness 107

7.4* The Transfinite Construction 109

7.5* Revision 112

7.6* Axiomatics 113

CHAPTER EIGHT: Insolubility? 116

8.1 Paradoxical Reasoning 116

8.2 "Revenge" 118

8.3 Logical "Solutions" 120

8.4 "Paraconsistency" 123

8.5 Contextualist "Solutions" 124

8.6 Inconsistency Theories 127

Further Reading 135

Bibliography 143

Index 153

Über Autor(innen)

Alexis G. Burgess is assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He is coeditor of Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning. John P. Burgess is the John N. Woodhull Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include Philosophical Logic and Fixing Frege (both Princeton).