Truth Without Objectivity: Truth Without Objectivity

Truth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'. Kölbel examines the standard solutions to the conflict implicit in this view, demonstrating their inadequacy and developing instead his own relativist theory of truth. The mainstream view of meaning assumes that understanding a sentence's meaning implies knowledge of the conditions required for it to be true. This view is challenged by taste judgements, which have meaning, but seem to be neither true nor false.

Cover -- Truth Without Objectivity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Truth-Conditional Semantics -- 1 One version of truth-conditional semantics -- 2 Compositionality -- 3 Force indicators and content indicators -- 4 Truth d efinitions 'serving as' meaning theories -- 5 Application to natural languages -- 6 Proper communicative function -- 7 Communicative acts -- 8 Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 2. Excess Objectivity -- 1 Excess objectivity -- 2 Three ways of solving the problem of excess objectivity -- 3 Kinds of objectivity -- 4 Wright's criterion of cognitive command -- 5 The problem of a priori error -- 6 Does plain error amount to cognitive failure? -- 7 A new criterion for objectivity -- 8 How to solve the problem of a priori error -- Chapter 3. Revisionism -- 1 How to revise a content ascription -- 2 The attraction of revisionism -- 3 Objection to revisionism: denial -- 4 Revising revisionism -- Chpater 4. Expressivism -- 1 Some expressivists -- 2 Unendorsed contexts -- 3 Two ways of meeting Geach's challenge -- 4 Hale and the grammatical uniformity of declarative sentences -- 5 Resolving Hale's problem -- 6 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 5…