From Truth to Reality New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics 1st Edition by Heather Dyke 9780415988452 0415988454

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ISBN 10: 0415988454

ISBN 13: 9780415988452

Author: Heather Dyke

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking “Are there numbers?” But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking “Is the sentence ‘There are numbers’ true?” Such semantic ascent implies that reality can be investigated by investigating our true sentences. This line of thought was dominant in twentieth century philosophy, but is now beginning to be called into question. In From Truth to Reality, Heather Dyke brings together some of the foremost metaphysicians to examine approaches to truth, reality, and the connections between the two. This collection features new and previously unpublished material by JC Beall, Mark Colyvan, Michael Devitt, John Heil, Frank Jackson, Fred Kroon, D. H. Mellor, Luca Moretti, Alan Musgrave, Robert Nola, J. J. C. Smart, Paul Snowdon, and Daniel Stoljar.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

PART I: Truth

2 “Unsettledness” in a Bivalent Language: A Modest, Nonepistemic Idea

3 Vagueness and Truth

PART II: Reality

4 Biological Realisms

5 Pleonastic Platonism

6 Anomalous Monism

7 On the Metaphysical Implications of Some Epistemological Commonplaces

8 Mathematical Platonism

PART III: Truth and Reality

9 On Creeping Minimalism and the Nature of Minimal Entities

10 Hempel’s Dilemma

11 From Reality to Truth: The Case of Electrons and Electron Theory

12 Reflections on the Gem

13 On the Sortal Dependency of Individuation Thesis

14 Truthmakers for What?

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