Truth, Reference and Realism

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-963-9776-86-9
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

The volume presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005. The problem addressed by the conference, famously formulated by Paul Benacerraf in a paper on Mathematical Truth, was how to understand truth in the semantics of discourses about abstract domains whose objects and properties cannot be observed by sense perception. The papers of the volume focus on this semantic issue in four major fields: logic, mathematics, ethics and the metaphysics of properties in general. Beyond marking an important event, the collected papers are also substantial contributions to the above topic, from the most distinguished authors in these areas.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simonyi, Andras

Novak, Zsolt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction András Simonyi and Zsolt Novák, The reality of mathematics and the case of set theory Daniel Isaacson, Conceptualism and knowledge of logic: A budget of problems Nenad Mišcevic, What is logic? Ian Rumfitt, Absolute identity and absolute generality Timothy Williamson, The refutation of expressivism Ralph Wedgwood, Benacerraf's problem, abstract objects and intellect Howard Robinson, About the Contributors,Index

Über Autor(innen)

András Simonyi is Research Fellow at the Applied Logic Laboratory, Budapest. His main areas of research interest are semantics, formal ontologies and philosophy of mathematics.

Zsolt Novák has obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leiden and from Central European University.