Doubt Truth to Be a Liar

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-926328-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Defends a highly controversial argument about truth
- Priest is internationally renowned for this position
- Implications throughout and beyond philosophy
- Accessible without specialist knowledge of logic

Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true. This is a view which runs against orthodoxy in logic and metaphysics since Aristotle, and has implications for many of the core notions of philosophy. Doubt Truth to Be a Liar explores these implications for truth, rationality, negation, and the nature of logic, and develops further the defence of dialetheism first mounted in Priest's In Contradiction, a second edition of which is also available.

Contents
- I. Truth
- 1 Aristotle on the Law of Non-Contradiction
- 2 Theories of Truth
- 3 Trivialism
- II. Negation
- 4 Contradiction
- 5 Boolean Negation
- 6 Denial and Rejection
- III. Rationality
- 7 Rational Belief
- 8 Belief Revision
- 9 Consistency and the Empirical Sciences
- IV. Logic
- 10 Logic and Revisability
- 11 Validity
- 12 Logical Pluralism

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of philosophy, logicians

Autoren/Hrsg.

Priest, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Über Autor(innen)

Graham Priest, Universities of Melbourne and St Andrews