Truth in Perspective
Recent Issues in Logic, Representation and Ontology
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Truth in Perspective
Recent Issues in Logic, Representation and Ontology
About this book
First published in 1998, this volume has its origin in a meeting that was held in Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in January 1996. The meeting was organized by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science in cooperation with the Association for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Spain. Within analytical philosophy issues such as the definability of truth, its semantic relevance, its role in the distinction between formal and natural languages, the status of truth-bearers or in its case of truth-makers, have become a crossroads in the studies of logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology and ontology. Thus, in spite of what the title Truth in Perspective may suggest to the reader at first, the present volume is not only - though it is also a presentation of different theories or conceptions of truth. Most of the book presents a vision of different groups of philosophical questions in which the issue of truth appears embedded together with other related themes, from different points of view.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Contributor
- Introduction
- Part I: Theories of truth
- 1 Is the concept of truth needed for semantics?
- 2 Truth from a constructive perspective
- 3 A paradox of truth minimalism
- Part II: Logic and truth
- 4 Hubert’s metamathematics and the finitist point of view
- 5 The little mermaid
- 6 Information-theoretic logic
- 7 Quantification and the logic of generalized propositions
- 8 Formal ontology, semantical interpretation and logic
- 9 Modes of many-valuedness
- 10 Inhabited temporalized deontic world
- Part III: Representation and truth
- 11 Representing
- 12 Functionalism and the spatial content of experience
- 13 The intentional versus the propositional conception of the objects of belief
- Part IV: Realism and truth
- 14 Reflections on relativism: from momentous tautology to seductive contradiction
- 15 What classes of things are there? C.
- 16 How language hooks on to the world
- 17 Variables, ontological commitment and the immanence of truth
- 18 Representational semantics for scientific theories
- 19 Incommensurability, reference and truth