Wrenn Truth

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8814-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Key Concepts in Philosophy

What is truth? Is there anything that all truths have in commonthat makes them true rather than false? Is truth independent ofhuman thought, or does it depend in some way on what we believe orwhat we would be justified in believing? In what sense, if any, isit better for beliefs or statements to be true than to befalse?
In this engaging and accessible new introduction Chase Wrennsurveys a variety of theories of the nature of truth and evaluatestheir philosophical costs and benefits. Paying particular attentionto how the theories accommodate realist intuitions and make senseof truth's value, he discusses a full range of theories fromclassical correspondence to relatively new deflationary andpluralist accounts. The book provides a clear, non-technical entrypoint to contemporary debates about truth for non-specialists.Specialists will also find new contributions to those debates,including a new argument for the superiority of deflationism tocausal correspondence and pluralist theories.
Drawing on a range of traditional and contemporary debates, thisbook will be of interest to students and scholars alike and anyoneinterested in the nature and value of truth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wrenn, Chase

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is Truth?
2. Objectivity
3. Truth and Normativity
4. Epistemic Theories of Truth
5. Correspondence Theories of Truth
6. Deflationary Theories of Truth
7. Pluralist Theories of Truth
8. Deflationism Revisited

Über Autor(innen)

Chase Wrenn has been in the faculty of the University of Alabama Department of Philosophy since 2001. His research focuses on the nature and value of truth, as well as related issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.