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The Concept of Truth

✍ Scribed by Richard Campbell (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
271
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Truth in Trouble....Pages 1-16
The Linguistic Conception of Truth....Pages 17-44
The Functions Truth Serves....Pages 45-61
Truth in Action....Pages 62-99
Acting Truly....Pages 100-124
The Genesis of Representations....Pages 125-156
Acts of Assertion....Pages 157-181
The Truth of Statements....Pages 182-211
The Challenge of Sceptical Relativism....Pages 212-240
Truth as Faithfulness....Pages 241-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-260

✦ Subjects

Epistemology; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind

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