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ISBN 10: 0199242895

ISBN 13: 9780199242894

Author: Hartry Field

Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts.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. The essays on truth, meaning, and the attitudes show a development from a form of correspondence theory of truth and meaning to a more deflationist perspective. The next set of papers argue that a place must be made in semantics for the idea that there are questions about which there is no fact of the matter, and address the difficulties involved in making sense of this, both within a correspondence theory of truth and meaning, and within a deflationary theory. Two papers argue that there are questions in mathematics about which there is no fact of the mattter, and draw out implications of this for the nature of mathematics. And the final paper argues for a view of epistemology in which it is not a purely fact-stating enterprise. This influential work by a key figure in contemporary philosophy will reward the attention of any philosopher interested in language, epistemology, or mathematics.

Truth and the absence of fact 1st Table of contents:

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

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