Modes of Truth

Modes of Truth
Author: Carlo Nicolai
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 042964180X

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The aim of this volume is to open up new perspectives and to raise new research questions about a unified approach to truth, modalities, and propositional attitudes. The volume’s essays are grouped thematically around different research questions. The first theme concerns the tension between the theoretical role of the truth predicate in semantics and its expressive function in language. The second theme of the volume concerns the interaction of truth with modal and doxastic notions. The third theme covers higher-order solutions to the semantic and modal paradoxes, providing an alternative to first-order solutions embraced in the first two themes. This book will be of interest to researchers working in epistemology, logic, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and semantics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

The Metaphysics of Truth

The Metaphysics of Truth
Author: Douglas Owain Edwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198758693

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What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? The Metaphysics of Truth tackles these fundamental philosophical questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. Moreover, it does so in a climate where the traditionally central issue of the nature of truth has diminished in significance due to the rise of deflationary and primitivist views, which deny that there are interesting and informative things to say about truth. Douglas Edwards responds to these views, and demonstrates the importance of the metaphysics of truth with regard to both the study of truth itself, and metaphysical debates more generally. He also develops a detailed pluralist metaphysical approach, which starts with the diversity of different subject areas, and holds that there are different relationships between language and the world in different areas, or 'domains'. He develops a pluralist approach which explains what domains are; how different domains are individuated; which metaphysical frameworks apply in different domains; and how truth plays a key role in the picture. The picture is extended to incorporate ontological pluralism - the idea that there are different ways of being - which increases the explanatory power of the view. Edwards gives particular attention to important domains which have not yet received a great deal of attention in debates about truth, namely the institutional and social domains, and thus connects work on the metaphysics of truth and being to key issues in social construction.

Heidegger and the Measure of Truth

Heidegger and the Measure of Truth
Author: Denis McManus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199694877

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Denis McManus presents a novel account of Martin Heidegger's early vision of our subjectivity and the world we inhabit. He explores key elements of Heidegger's philosophy, and argues that Heidegger's central claims identify genuine demands that must be met if we are to achieve the feat of thinking determinate thoughts about the world around us.

An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence

An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence
Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2013-08-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674728556

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In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? An Inquiry into Modes of Existence offers a new basis for diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time of ecological crisis.

Belief and Truth

Belief and Truth
Author: Katja Maria Vogt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199916810

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Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about belief, doxa — belief is "shameful." In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Vogt shows how deeply this proposal differs from contemporary views, but that it nevertheless speaks to intuitions we are likely to share with Plato, ancient skeptics, and Stoic epistemologists.

Nietzsche as German Philosopher

Nietzsche as German Philosopher
Author: Otfried Höffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-02-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108587488

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This collection brings together in translation the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Nietzsche's philosophy, ranging over his concept of irony, his thoughts on music, his relation to the pre-Socratics, his concept of truth, and numerous other topics. Many of the essays appear in English here for the first time, and all are newly translated for the volume.

Experience and its Modes

Experience and its Modes
Author: Michael Oakeshott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-10-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 110711358X

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This book is Michael Oakeshott's discussion of the relationships between the most important perspectives from which we experience the world.

Critique and Praxis

Critique and Praxis
Author: Bernard E. Harcourt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 730
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231551452

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Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to engage only in critique. These times of crisis demand more. Bernard E. Harcourt challenges us to move beyond decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for action. In a time of increasing awareness of economic and social inequality, Harcourt calls on us to make society more equal and just. Only critical theory can guide us toward a more self-reflexive pursuit of justice. Charting a vision for political action and social transformation, Harcourt argues that instead of posing the question, “What is to be done?” we must now turn it back onto ourselves and ask, and answer, “What more am I to do?” Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each and every one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice. Joining his decades of activism, social-justice litigation, and political engagement with his years of critical theory and philosophical work, Harcourt has written a magnum opus.

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon
Author: Leonard Lawlor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1318
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139867067

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.