Axiomatic Theories of Truth
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:27th Feb '14
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A survey of the most important axiomatizations of truth, exploring their properties and how the logical results impinge on philosophical topics.
Volker Halbach examines the most important axiomatizations of truth, explores their properties and shows how the logical results impinge on the philosophical topics related to truth. His book will be indispensable reading for any graduate or professional philosopher in theories of truth.At the centre of the traditional discussion of truth is the question of how truth is defined. Recent research, especially with the development of deflationist accounts of truth, has tended to take truth as an undefined primitive notion governed by axioms, while the liar paradox and cognate paradoxes pose problems for certain seemingly natural axioms for truth. In this book, Volker Halbach examines the most important axiomatizations of truth, explores their properties and shows how the logical results impinge on the philosophical topics related to truth. In particular, he shows that the discussion on topics such as deflationism about truth depends on the solution of the paradoxes. His book is an invaluable survey of the logical background to the philosophical discussion of truth, and will be indispensable reading for any graduate or professional philosopher in theories of truth.
ISBN: 9781107424425
Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
Weight: 580g
362 pages
2nd Revised edition