Author: Herman Cappelen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019156799X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in foundational semantics. Relativism and Monadic Truth aims not merely to combat analytic relativism but also to combat the foundational ideas in semantics that led to its revival. Doing so requires a proper understanding of the significance of possible worlds semantics, an examination of the relation between truth and the flow of time, an account of putatively relevant data from attitude and speech act reporting, and a careful treatment of various operators. Throughout, Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne contrast relativism with a view according to which the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth simpliciter and falsity simpliciter. Such propositions, they argue, are the semantic values of sentences (relative to context), the objects of illocutionary acts, and, unsurprisingly, the objects of propositional attitudes.
Relativism and Monadic Truth
Author: Herman Cappelen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019156799X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in foundational semantics. Relativism and Monadic Truth aims not merely to combat analytic relativism but also to combat the foundational ideas in semantics that led to its revival. Doing so requires a proper understanding of the significance of possible worlds semantics, an examination of the relation between truth and the flow of time, an account of putatively relevant data from attitude and speech act reporting, and a careful treatment of various operators. Throughout, Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne contrast relativism with a view according to which the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth simpliciter and falsity simpliciter. Such propositions, they argue, are the semantic values of sentences (relative to context), the objects of illocutionary acts, and, unsurprisingly, the objects of propositional attitudes.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019156799X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in foundational semantics. Relativism and Monadic Truth aims not merely to combat analytic relativism but also to combat the foundational ideas in semantics that led to its revival. Doing so requires a proper understanding of the significance of possible worlds semantics, an examination of the relation between truth and the flow of time, an account of putatively relevant data from attitude and speech act reporting, and a careful treatment of various operators. Throughout, Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne contrast relativism with a view according to which the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth simpliciter and falsity simpliciter. Such propositions, they argue, are the semantic values of sentences (relative to context), the objects of illocutionary acts, and, unsurprisingly, the objects of propositional attitudes.
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Author: John Gordon MacFarlane
Publisher: Context & Content
ISBN: 0199682755
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Explores how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative and uses the idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that resist traditional analysis.
Publisher: Context & Content
ISBN: 0199682755
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Explores how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative and uses the idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that resist traditional analysis.
Assertion
Author: Jessica Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019957300X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the place to look for anyone interested in current work on the topic. Philosophers of language and epistemologists join forces to elucidate what kind of speech act assertion is, particularly in light of relativist views of truth, and how assertion is governed by epistemic norms.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019957300X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the place to look for anyone interested in current work on the topic. Philosophers of language and epistemologists join forces to elucidate what kind of speech act assertion is, particularly in light of relativist views of truth, and how assertion is governed by epistemic norms.
Philosophy Without Intuitions
Author: Herman Cappelen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199644861
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The standard view of philosophical methodology is that philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence. Herman Cappelen argues that this claim is false, and reveals how it has encouraged pseudo-problems, presented misguided ideas of what philosophy is, and misled exponents of metaphilosophy and experimental philosophy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199644861
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The standard view of philosophical methodology is that philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence. Herman Cappelen argues that this claim is false, and reveals how it has encouraged pseudo-problems, presented misguided ideas of what philosophy is, and misled exponents of metaphilosophy and experimental philosophy.
The Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of (Scientific) Knowledge
Author: Richard Schantz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311032590X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This volume comprises original articles by leading authors – from philosophy as well as sociology – in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from historical and systematic points of view. Among the contributors are Maria Baghramian, Barry Barnes, Martin Endreß, Hubert Knoblauch, Richard Schantz and Harvey Siegel.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311032590X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This volume comprises original articles by leading authors – from philosophy as well as sociology – in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from historical and systematic points of view. Among the contributors are Maria Baghramian, Barry Barnes, Martin Endreß, Hubert Knoblauch, Richard Schantz and Harvey Siegel.
Relative Truth
Author: Manuel García-Carpintero
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199234957
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Relative Truth examines a question which has become the focus of one of the liveliest debates in philosophy: whether truth is relative to standards of taste, values, or subjective informational states. Specially written papers by leading figures, together with a helpful introduction, make this book the starting-point for future work.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199234957
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Relative Truth examines a question which has become the focus of one of the liveliest debates in philosophy: whether truth is relative to standards of taste, values, or subjective informational states. Specially written papers by leading figures, together with a helpful introduction, make this book the starting-point for future work.
The Inessential Indexical
Author: Herman Cappelen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199686742
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this book the authors argue that there are no such things as essential indexicality, irreducibly de se attitudes, or self-locating attitudes.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199686742
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this book the authors argue that there are no such things as essential indexicality, irreducibly de se attitudes, or self-locating attitudes.
Truth and Realism
Author: Patrick Greenough
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199288885
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199288885
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.
The Truth about Relativism
Author: Joseph Margolis
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631181781
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631181781
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability
Author: Lee Walters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198712731
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability comprises fifteen original essays on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at Oxford. Eminent contributors from philosophy and linguistics discuss a range of topics including conditionals, vagueness, knowledge, reasoning, and probability.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198712731
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability comprises fifteen original essays on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at Oxford. Eminent contributors from philosophy and linguistics discuss a range of topics including conditionals, vagueness, knowledge, reasoning, and probability.