Truth and Truth-Making

ISBN-13: 9781844651450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str.

E J Lowe

Opis

Presents an introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making entities, and the scope of a truth-maker theory.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: truth and truth-making, A. Rami Part I: Setting the stage 2. Truth and the truth-maker principle in 1921, Kevin Mulligan 3. Truthmakers, Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons and Barry Smith 4. Truth-makers, entailment and necessity, Greg Restall 5. Postscript to "Truth-makers, entailment and necessity", Greg Restall 6. Truth-making and difference-making, David Lewis 7. The general theory of truth-making, D. M. Armstrong Part II: The current debate 8. Truth-making and correspondence, Marian David 9. Facts and relations: the matter of ontology and of truth-making, Herbert Hochberg 10. Being and truth, Paul Horwich 11. An essentialist approach to truth-making, E. J. Lowe 12. Are there irreducibly relational facts?, Josh Parsons 13. Why truthmakers, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 14. Postscript to "Why truth-makers", Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Bibliography Index

O autorze

E. J. Lowe, A. Rami