New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-929630-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 815 g

New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy aims to show the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). The contributors are an international group of scholars, some expert in the historical background and context of Tarski's work, others specializing in aspects of his philosophical development, others more interested in understanding Tarski in the light of contemporary thought.
The essays can be seen as addressing Tarski's seminal treatment of four basic questions about logical consequence. (1) How are we to understand truth, one of the notions in terms of which logical consequence is explained? What is it that is preserved in valid inference, or that such inference allows us to discover new claims to have on the basis of old? (2) Among what kinds of things does the relation of logical consequence hold? (3) Given answers to the first two questions, what is involved in the consequence relationship itself? What is the preservation at work in 'truth preservation'? (4) Finally, what do truth and consequence so construed have to do with meaning?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patterson, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Douglas Patterson: Introduction

- 2: Roman Murawski and Jan Wolenski: Tarski and His Polish Predecessors on Truth

- 3: Arianna Betti: Polish Axiomatics and its Truth: On Tarski's Lesniewskian Background and the Ajdukiewicz Connection

- 4: Solomon Feferman: Tarski's Conceptual Analysis of Semantical Notions

- 5: Wilfrid Hodges: Tarski's Theory of Definition

- 6: Marian David: Tarski's Convention T and the Concept of Truth

- 7: Douglas Patterson: Tarski's Conception of Meaning

- 8: Paolo Mancosu: Tarski, Neurath and Kokoszynska on the Semantic Conception of Truth

- 9: Greg Frost-Arnold: Tarski's Nominalism

- 10: Panu Raatikainen: Truth, Meaning, and Translation

- 11: John Etchemendy: Reflections on Consequence

- 12: Gila Sher: Tarski's Thesis

- 13: Mario Gomez-Torrente: Are There Model-Theoretic Logical Truths That Are Not Logically True?

- 14: Peter Simons: Truth on a Tight Budget: Tarski and Nominalism

- 15: Jody Azzouni: Alternative Logics and the Role of Truth in the Interpretation of Languages

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas Patterson was born in Utah and grew up near Minneapolis, MN. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Reed College in Portland, OR, and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He currently teaches at Kansas State University where he is an associate professor.