Deflationary Truth Paperback / softback
Edited by Bradley P. Armour-Garb, J. C. Beall
Paperback / softback
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This book is a collection of important writings on deflationism, with a detailed introduction and an exhaustive annotated bibliography.
Among philosophers concerned with the theory of truth, deflationist positions have quickly gained ground and have become the most popular.
Yet heretofore there has been no single book to which the readers can go for a detailed, overall view of the entire phenomenon of deflationism.
This is the only available map of the whole terrain of deflationism. Deflationism is a comparatively new approach, though it has its roots in the thinking of some philosophers in the early twentieth century.
Deflationism rejects all the traditional theories of truth: the correspondence theory (truth corresponds with facts), the coherence theory (truth is membership of a coherent set of beliefs), the pragmatist theory is provability or verifiability). This book gives complete coverage to all the different varieties of deflationism, and to earlier philosophers who anticipated deflationism.
The articles and exerpts include classic works by Frege, Ayer, Ramsey, Tarsk, and Quine, and recent works by the leading deflationist authors of today: Paul Horwich, Hartry Field, Stephen Schiffer, Robert Brandom, and Stephen Leeds.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
- Publication Date:16/06/2005
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- ISBN:9780812695540
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
- Publication Date:16/06/2005
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- ISBN:9780812695540
