Michael P. Lynch: Truth as One and Many

Cover: 9780199596300 | Truth as One and Many | Michael P. Lynch | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all; the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In this concise and clearly written book, Lynch argues that we should reject both these extremes and hold that truth is a functional property. To understand truth we must understand what it does, its function in our cognitive economy. Once we understand that, we'll see that this function can be performed in more than one way. And that in turn opens the door to an appealing pluralism: beliefs about the concrete physical world needn't be true in the same way as our thoughts about matters -- like morality -- where the human stain is deepest.

Über den Autor

Michael P. Lynch is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1: Truisms

2: Truth as One

3: Truth as Many

4: Truth as One and Many

5: Deflationism and Explanation

6: Expanding the view: Semantic Functionalism

7: Truth and the Moral Fabric

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199596300
ISBN-10:	0199596301
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lynch, Michael P.
Hersteller:	OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael P. Lynch
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.03.2011
Gewicht:	0,279 kg