Modes of Truth The Unified Approach to Truth, Modality, and Paradox

• Other Authors: Nicolai, Carlo (Editor), Stern, Johannes (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Andrew Bacon; Carlo Nicolai; Catrin Campbell-Moore; compositional principles; deflationary truth; de re modalities; Eugenio Orlandelli; epistemology; Friederike Moltmann; Giovanna Corsi; higher-order quantification; infinite types; James Studd; Johannes Stern; Julien Murzi; Lavinia Picollo; Leon Horsten; Liar's paradox; Lorenzo Rossi; logic; Matteo Zicchetti; Montague's paradox; modality; objects; Paul Égré; paradox; philosophy of language; philosophy of logic; possible worlds semantics; predicates
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Summary

The aim of this volume is to open up new perspectives and to raise new research questions about a unified approach to truth, modalities, and propositional attitudes. The volume's essays are grouped thematically around different research questions. The first theme concerns the tension between the theoretical role of the truth predicate in semantics and its expressive function in language. The second theme of the volume concerns the interaction of truth with modal and doxastic notions. The third theme covers higher-order solutions to the semantic and modal paradoxes, providing an alternative to first-order solutions embraced in the first two themes. This book will be of interest to researchers working in epistemology, logic, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and semantics.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (304 p.)

ISBN

9780429030208
9780429641800
9780367141097
9780367688677

Access

Open Access