Truth -- Meaning -- Reality

✍ Scribed by Paul Horwich

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Horwich's story begins with a minimalist view of truth according to which this extraordinary concept is far less profound and substantial than has usually been assumed, since it stems entirely from our regarding ''It is true that dogs bark'' as equivalent to ''Dogs bark,'' and similarly in the case of all other statements. There's nothing more to truth than that! This view turns out to be of fundamental importance throughout the subject. In the first instance it paves the way to an account of meaning as use, whereby the sense of each word-type is given by its basic patterns of deployment rather than by its association with a feature of the non-linguistic world. And the combination of deflated truth and 'meaning as use' then yields a perspective from which the long-standing debates between forms of ''realism'' and ''anti-realism'' must be preconceived. We are able to see that the positions typically adopted in these debates are all defective -- contrived products of the mistaken assumption that reality, together with our representation of it, must exhibit a rigid uniformity and that deviations from the norm would be intolerably ''weird.'' The fourteen essays collected here constitute a coherent and complete expression of this three-pronged philosophy. Each of them is self-standing. But they have been revised and arranged so as to reveal the power and plausibility of Horwich's overall approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0007.djvu
Preface......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0003.djvu
1. What is Truth?......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0009.djvu
2. Varieties of Deflationism......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0021.djvu
3. A Defense of Minimalism......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0043.djvu
4. The Value of Truth......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0065.djvu
5. A Minimalist Critique of Tarski......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0087.djvu
6. Kripke's Paradox of Meaning......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0107.djvu
7. Regularities, Rules, Meanings, Truth Conditions, and Epistemic Norms......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0121.djvu
8. Semantics: What's Truth Got to Do With It?......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0151.djvu
9. The Motive Power of Evaluative Concepts......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0175.djvu
10. Ungrounded Reason......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0205.djvu
11. The Nature of Paradox......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0233.djvu
12. A World without Isms'......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0263.djvu
13. The Quest for REALITY......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0289.djvu
14. Being and Truth......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0307.djvu
Provenance of Chapters......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0331.djvu
Bibliography......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0333.djvu
Index......Page all_13579_to_00349.cpc0345.djvu