What is truth? -- Varieties of deflationism -- A defense of minimalism -- The value of truth -- A minimalist critique of Tarski -- Kripke's paradox of meaning -- Regularities, rules, meanings, truth conditions, and epistemic norms -- Semantics : what's truth got to do with it? -…
'Truth, Meaning, Reality' presents a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge and reality. Horwich's story begins with his minimalist view of truth which paves the way to an account of meaning as use. The 14 essays constitute a coherent and co…
New frontiers in truth
Although philosophers have been concerned with truth since at least the age of Plato, the last thirty years have witnessed a veritable explosion of the philosophical debate on this topic. The touchpaper which lit the fuse for this was undoubtedly the Deflationist Renaissance (ha…
New frontiers in truth
« Although philosophers have been concerned with truth since at least the age of Plato, the last thirty years have witnessed a veritable explosion of the philosophical debate on this topic. The touchpaper which lit the fuse for this was undoubtedly the Deflationist Renaissance (…
New frontiers in truth
New frontiers in truth
Although philosophers have been concerned with truth since at least the age of Plato, the last thirty years have witnessed a veritable explosion of the philosophical debate on this topic. The touchpaper which lit the fuse for this was undoubtedly the Deflationist Renaissance (ha…
Content: Axiomatic theories of truth -- On the shoulders of giants -- The disquotational theory -- Deflationism -- The compositional theory -- Conservativeness and deflationism -- Maximizing classical compositionality -- Kripke's theory axiomatized -- Truth and philosophy.