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Title New frontiers in truth / edited by Fabio Bacchini, Stefano Caputo and Massimo Dell'Utri
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Contents Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- ABSTRACTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF NAMES
Summary 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 (half a century after the seminal work of F.P. Ramsey) due, in the Seventies, both to the Quinean disquotational interpretation of the Tarskian truth definitions and to the development of the prosentential theory of truth by D. Grover, J. Kamp and N. Belnap, and, from the second half of the Eighties onwards, to the forcefu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015)
Subject Truth -- Deflationary theory.
Truth -- Philosophy
Philosophy of language.
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Truth -- Deflationary theory
Truth -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Bacchini, Fabio, editor
Caputo, Stefano, editor
Dell'Utri, Massimo, editor
ISBN 9781443873970
1443873977
1322608121
9781322608129
144386806X
9781443868068