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Truth

Edited by Simon Blackburn and Keith Simmons

Price: £21.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-875250-9
Publication date: 9 September 1999
416 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford Readings in Philosophy
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New in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series
Features many of the biggest names of analytic philosophy
Brings together classic and current essays dealing with the theory of truth
Contributors include F. H. Bradley, Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege, W. V. Quine, J. L. Austin and Donald Davidson

The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editors of each volume contribute an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

This volume is designed to set out some of the central issues in the theory of truth. It begins with writings by F. H. Bradley, William James, Gottlob Frege, and Bertrand Russell, and continues wih the classical discussions from the middle of the century (including Wittgenstein, Quine, and Austin), ending with a selection of contemporary contributions, including essays from Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty. The collection draws together, for the first time, the debates between philosophers who favour 'robust' or 'substantive' theories of truth, and those other, 'deflationist' or minimalists, who deny that such theories can be given.

The editors provide a substantial introduction, in which they map out this terrain and locate writers from Frege to Wittgenstein and Davidson within it. They also describe how these debates relate to more technical issues, such as work on the Liar paradox and formal truth theories.

Readership: 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates studying truth as part of a philosophy of language or philosophical logic course. Graduates and professional philosophers working in the area.

Contents

Introduction

PART I: BACKGROUND `ROBUST' THEORIES

1. On Truth and Copying , F. H. Bradley

2. The Nature of Truth , H. H. Joachim

3. Pragmatism's Conception of Truth , William James

4. William James's Conception of Truth , Bertrand Russell

PART II: EARLY MINIMALIST THEORIES

5. The Thought: A Logical Enquiry , Gottlob Frege

6. On Facts and Propositions , F. P. Ramsey

7. Philosophical Extracts , Ludwig Wittgenstein

8. The Semantic Conception of Truth , Alfred Tarski

9. Philosophy of Logic , W. V. Quine

PART III: THE EARLY MODERN DEBATE

10. Truth , J. L. Austin

11. Truth , P. F. Strawson

12. Unfair to Facts , J. L. Austin

PART IV: MODERN MINIMALISM AND DOUBTS ABOUT IT

13. Truth: A Traditional Debate Reviewed , Crispin Wright

14. The Minimalist Conception of Truth , Paul Horwich

15. Of What Kind of Thing is Truth a Property? , Michael Dummett

16. A Critique of Deflationism , Anil Gupta

17. The Folly of Trying to Define Truth , Donald Davidson

18. Pragmatism, Davidson, and Truth , Richard Rorty

19. Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content , Hartry Field

Notes on the Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Simon Blackburn, Professor of Professor, University of Cambridge and
Keith Simmons, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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More in the same subject area:
Philosophy of mind
Epistemology, theory of knowledge

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