Truth, 9780691163673
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This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, Burgess and Burgess cover a wide range of issues, including the nature of …

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    176 pages

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    9 November 2014

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This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, Burgess and Burgess cover a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth-value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from Alfred Tarski to Saul Kripke and beyond. The …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780691163673
ISBN-10:0691163677
Author:Alexis G. Burgess, John P. Burgess
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Imprint:Princeton University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:9 November 2014
Weight:227g
Dimensions:203mm x 127mm
Series:Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
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Critics Review

“Truth is remarkably succinct… Yet it covers a great amount of ground with accessible discussions of a variety of topics… [I]ntelligent and provocative.”–Michael P. Lynch, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Burgess and Burgess’s book will be widely praised for wielding together the current approaches to truth and to paradoxes, without ceasing to be essentially introductory. Surely, this is an important achievement.”–Andreas Karitzis, Metascience “Professors of philosophy, the authors have done a succinct and critical analysis of some theories of truth: deflationism, indeterminacy, insolubility, realism, and antirealism… Throughout the volume, one can see the mathematical precision of the reasoning of the concepts presented here that could be a model for all endeavours of research into complex areas of philosophy. This book could be an inspiration for further work on truth.”–Prabuddha Bharata

About The Author

Alexis G. Burgess

Alexis G. Burgess is assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He is coeditor of Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning. John P. Burgess is the John N. Woodhull Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include Philosophical Logic and Fixing Frege (both Princeton).

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