Truth and Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth and Realism write by Patrick Greenough. This book was released on 2006. Truth and Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.
Realism and Truth
Realism and Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Realism and Truth write by Michael Devitt. This book was released on 1997-01-12. Realism and Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a provocative thesis, philosophy professor Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world and for a corresponding notion of truthcontrary to the opinions of anti-realists such as Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and others. This second edition includes a new Afterword by the author.
Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth
Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth write by Richard A. Fumerton. This book was released on 2002. Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Defending a realism about truth, Fumerton (philosophy, U. of Iowa) argues that the most plausible version of realism is the correspondence theory of truth, and that only by including in one's ontology the critical relation of correspondence between truth bearers and truth makers can one avoid an implausible metaphysics of possibilia in a realist analysis of falsehood. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Realist Conception of Truth
A Realist Conception of Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Realist Conception of Truth write by William P. Alston. This book was released on 2018-10-18. A Realist Conception of Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of truth. William P. Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia," Greek for truth). This idea holds that the truth value of a statement (belief or proposition) depends on whether what the statement is about is as the statement says it is. Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam are two of the prominent and widely influential contemporary philosophers whose anti-realist ideas Alston attacks.
Scientific Realism
Scientific Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Realism write by Stathis Psillos. This book was released on 2005-08-02. Scientific Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track. This book argues that the history of science does not undermine this notion, suggesting it as the best philosophical account of science.
