Truth Without Objectivity

ISBN-13: 9780415272445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 166 str.

Max Kolbel

Opis

Truth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'. Kolbel examines the standard solutions to the conflict implicit in this view, demonstrating their inadequacy and developing instead his own relativist theory of truth.
The mainstream view of meaning assumes that understanding a sentence's meaning implies knowledge of the conditions required for it to be true. This view is challenged by taste judgements, which have meaning, but seem to be neither true nor false."

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Truth-Conditional Semantics; Chapter 2 Excess Objectivity; Chapter 3 Revisionism; Chapter 4 Expressivism; Chapter 5 Soft Truth; Chapter 6 Relative Truth and Linguistic Communication; Chapter 7 Defence of Relativism;

O autorze

Max Kölbel is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.