The Taming of the True

ISBN-13: 9780198237174 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 488 str.

Neil Tennant

Opis

The Taming of the True defends and develops global semantic anti-realism. Neil Tennant argues compellingly that every truth is knowable, and that manifestationism in the theory of meaning entails logical reform. He extends semantic anti-realism to empirical discourse, developing new accounts of the analytic/synthetic distinction, cognitive significance and constructive falsifiability. The book has important consequences for the philosophy of mathematics and logic, the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and epistemology.

Recenzje

Tennant's views ... constitute quite a unique blend. They not only correct, or modify, or supplement some of Dummett's arguments, including the famous manifestation requirement, but also put the whole [anti-realist] research programme in a quite different metaphilosophical setting, more congenial to the idea of naturalized philosophy ... The book is very lucidly written, and the main arguments are well signposted, presented and summarized. ... it is a very advanced work.

O autorze

Neil Tennant is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science at Ohio State University. He previously held chairs at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and at the Australian National University. He has held visiting professorships or fellowships at Munich, Cambridge, Michigan, Pittsburgh, and Dartmouth College.