Truth, Reference and Realism

✍ Scribed by Zsolt Novák, Andras Simonyi (edtors)

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005. The problem addressed by the conference, famously formulated by Paul Benacerraf in a paper on Mathematical Truth, was how to understand truth in the semantics of discourses about abstract domains whose objects and properties cannot be observed by sense perception. The papers of the volume focus on this semantic issue in four major fields: logic, mathematics, ethics and the metaphysics of properties in general. Beyond marking an important event, the collected papers are also substantial contributions to the above topic, from the most distinguished authors in these areas (Daniel Isaacson, Ralph Wedgwood, Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford), Nenad Miscevic (CEU, University of Maribor), Howard Robinson (CEU), Ian Rumfitt (University of London)), and four of them were prepared for this volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Title page
......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
The Reality of Mathematics and the Case of Set Theory......Page 38
Conceptualism and Knowledge of Logic: A Budget of Problems......Page 114
What is Logic?......Page 162
Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality......Page 214
The Refutation of Expressivism......Page 244
Benacerraf' s Problem, Abstract Objects and Intellect......Page 272
About the Authors......Page 300
Index......Page 302