Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth

ISBN-13: 9781138264960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 204 str.

George Englebretsen

Opis

The very idea of truth as a substantial and meaningful concept has been under attack recently from advocates of New Age and postmodern theories. In this book Englebretsen defends the notions of truth and objectivity as key to the scientific view of the natural world and presents an original defence of the 'commonsense' correspondence theory of truth.

Recenzje

'... [Englebretsen] has provided us with a learned presentation of a new, original correspondence theory of truth, attempting to deal with all three of its elements: truth-bearers, the relation of correspondence and truth-makers.' Metapsychology Online

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part One: Introduction; À la Reserche du Temps Perdu; The big MAC attack. Part Two: Terminism; Facing the facts; Giving the world its due; A nice derangement; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

George Englebretsen is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Canada.