Truth and the Absence of Fact.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (418 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Original Publication -- 1. Truth, Meaning, and Prepositional Attitudes -- 1. Tarski's Theory of Truth -- Postscript -- 2. Mental Representation -- Postscript -- 3. Stalnaker on Intentionality -- 4. Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content -- Postscript -- 5. Attributions of Meaning and Content -- 2. Indeterminacy and Factual Defectiveness -- 6. Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference -- Postscript -- 7. Quine and the Correspondence Theory -- Appendix: Indeterminacy in the Metalanguage -- Postscript -- 8. Disquotational Truth and Factually Defective Discourse -- 9. Some Thoughts on Radical Indeterminacy -- Postscript -- 10. Indeterminacy, Degree of Belief, and Excluded Middle -- Postscript -- 3. Objectivity -- 11. Mathematical Objectivity and Mathematical Objects -- 12. Which Undecidable Mathematical Sentences Have Determinate Truth Values? -- Postscript -- 13. Apriority as an Evaluative Notion -- Appendix: Rules and Basic Rules -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen of his most important essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts. Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and propositional attitudes, five are primarily about semantic indeterminacy and other kinds of 'factual defectiveness' in our discourse, and three are primarily about issues concerning objectivity, especially in mathematics and in epistemology. This influential work by a key figure in contemporary philosophy will reward the attention of any philosopher interested in language, epistemology, or mathematics.
9780191529207
Language and languages -- Philosophy. Objectivity. Truth.