عنوان

Truth and objectivity /

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0674045386

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0674910877

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9780674045385

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9780674910874

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0674910869

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9780674910867

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9780674910874

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Title Proper

Truth and objectivity /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Crispin Wright.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1992.

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1 online resource (x, 247 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents -- 1. Inflating Deflationism -- 2. Minimal Truth, Internal Realism and Superassertibility -- 3. Convergence and Cognitive Command -- Appendix: The Euthyphro Contrast -- 4. Cognitive Command and the Theoreticity of Observation -- 5. Realism and the Best Explanation of Belief -- 6. Quietism -- Appendix: On an Argument against the Coherence of Minimalism about Meaning -- Index

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Philosophy, in seeking after truth, must also grapple with questions about the nature and status of truth itself. Is there, for example, such a thing as fully objective truth, or is our talk of "truth" merely a projection onto the world of what we find acceptable in moral argument, scientific theory, mathematical discourse? Such questions are at the center of Truth and Objectivity, which offers an original perspective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry. Crispin Wright proposes a radically new framework for the discussion of the claims of the realists who think of truth as fully objective and the anti-realists who oppose them - a framework which rejects the classical "deflationary" conception of truth yet allows both realist and antirealist to respect the intuition that judgements whose status they contest, such as those in moral argument and theoretical science, may often justifiably be regarded as true. The real issues that must be resolved if the contest between realist and anti-realist views of a range of judgements is to be properly adjudicated are different, and are here developed in detail from a sharply novel perspective. In addition, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the "deflationary" conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, truth and "correspondence to fact," role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs, anti-realism about content, and the "quietism" toward this whole tradition of debate favored by some philosophers of Wittgensteinian sympathies. Wright's proposals are arrestingly original, interesting, and rich in implication. Recasting important questions about truth and objectivity in new and helpful terms, his book will become a focus in the contemporary debates over realism, and will give new impetus to these debates in all areas of philosophy.

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Title

Truth and objectivity.

Realism.

Réalisme.

Objectivité

PHILOSOPHY-- Epistemology.

Realism.

Realisme (filosofie)

Réalisme.

Realismus

Realismus

Vérité

Waarheid.

Wahrheit

PHI-- 004000

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Edition

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Book number

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Wright, Crispin,1942-

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