Truth, Meaning and Realism

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84706-154-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

A.C. Grayling is one of Britain’s leading thinkers, highly regarded as a public philosopher of distinction as well as in academic circles for his scholarly work on Descartes, Berkeley, Russell and Wittgenstein, his writings on the problem of scepticism, his widely used Introduction to Philosophical Logic and (as editor) his two volume Philosophy and (as chief editor) the Continuum Encyclopaedia of British Philosophy.

This book serves as an excellent guide to Grayling’s main philosophical concerns and shows the intellectual underpinning of much of his more popular work. This volume of selected essays includes his work in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic, with particular focus on truth, judgment and the realism-anti-realism debate. Each essay is intended as a further contribution to previous topics covered and aims to bring them up-to-date. As such, this collection does not aspire to be the last word on a theory, but rather to advance a perspective and add relevant suggestions to understanding them further.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grayling, A.C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1.Metaphysically Innocent Representation of Truth
2.Knowing the Meaning
3.Truth and Evaluation
4.Evidence and Judgement
5.Transcendental Argument
6.The Argument to Knowledge
7. Method Epistemology

Über Autor(innen)

A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt.