Truth and Objectivity
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
262 pages
978-0-674-91087-4 (ISBN)
Description
Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical "deflationary" conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, 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, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.
Reviews / Votes
Truth and Objectivity is a strikingly resourceful and serious book, imbued with respect for the difficulty of philosophical problems and a readiness to probe them with all the conceptual instruments of contemporary analytic philosophy. -- Timothy Williamson * International Journal of Philosophical Studies * A milestone in the discussion of realism. -- Jim Edwards * Mind * Full of interesting ideas and challenging arguments. -- Frank Jackson * Philosophical Books * Besides its thorough and subtle examination of [the] multiple criteria of realism, the merit of Truth and Objectivity is to have shown how the naive picture of 'objective facts' fragments under scrutiny, to the point that it becomes unclear that we should continue to speak of realism and anti-realism within a domain as if they were definitive positions. -- Paul Horwich * Times Literary Supplement *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
none
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-91087-4 (9780674910874)
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Crispin Wright
Truth and Objectivity
E-Book
07/2009
Harvard University Press
€41.79
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Person
Crispin Wright is Global Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling, and Regius Professor of Logic Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen.
Content
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