Truth -- Meaning -- Reality
by Horwich, PaulFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-03-05
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Truth-Meaning-Reality presents, a fresh approach to philosophy-a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, reality, and the relations between them.
Author Biography
Paul Horwich (BA Oxford 1968, MA Yale 1969, PhD Cornell 1974) is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| What is Truth? | p. 1 |
| Varieties of Deflationism | p. 13 |
| A Defense of Minimalism | p. 35 |
| The Value of Truth | p. 57 |
| A Minimalist Critique of Tarski | p. 79 |
| Kripke's Paradox of Meaning | p. 99 |
| Regularities, Rules, Meanings, Truth Conditions, and Epistemic Norms | p. 113 |
| Semantics: What's Truth Got to Do With It? | p. 143 |
| The Motive Power of Evaluative Concepts | p. 167 |
| Ungrounded Reason | p. 197 |
| The Nature of Paradox | p. 225 |
| A World without 'Isms' | p. 255 |
| The Quest for REALITY | p. 281 |
| Being and Truth | p. 299 |
| Provenance of Chapters | p. 323 |
| Bibliography | p. 325 |
| Index | p. 337 |
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