Oxford handbook of truth / edited by Michael Glanzberg.

Contributor(s):

Glanzberg, Michael [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford handbooksPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018Description: xii, 808 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:

9780199557929

Subject(s):

Truth
Truth

DDC classification:

121 OXF

Contents:

Plato and Aristotle on truth and falsehood -- Truth in the middle ages -- Early modern theories of truth -- Idealism and the question of truth -- Truth in British idealism and its analytic critics -- Judgments, facts, and propositions -- Truth in Frege -- The coherence theory of truth -- The correspondence theory of truth -- The identity theory of truth -- The pragmatist theory of truth -- Propositions and truth-bearers -- Truthmakers -- A logical theory of truth-makers and falsity-makers -- Bivalence and determinacy -- Truth, objectivity, and realism -- Deflationist truth -- Truth in fictionalism -- Relative truth -- Truth pluralism -- The moral truth -- Truth and the sciences -- Truth and truthlikeness -- Truth in mathematics -- Semantic paradoxes -- Tarski on the conecpt of truth -- The axiomatic approach to truth -- Non-classical theories of truth -- Contextual theories of truth and paradox.

Summary: A team of 36 leading experts present the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They survey how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present; offer critical assessments of the standard theories of truth; and explore the role of truth in logic, language, metaphysics, ethics, science, and mathematics.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A team of 36 leading experts present the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They survey how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present; offer critical assessments of the standard theories of truth; and explore the role of truth in logic, language, metaphysics, ethics, science, and mathematics.

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