Hard truths
By: Elijah Millgram.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781405188159
Subjects: Truth; Reasoning; Metaphysics
Description: Hard Truths is a groundbreaking new work in which noted philosopher Elijah Millgram advances a new approach to truth and its role in our day-to-day reasoning.:.; Takes up the hard truths of real reasoning and draws out their implications for logic and metaphysics.; Introduces and takes issue withprevailing views of the purpose of truth and the way we reason, including deflationism about truth, possible worlds treatments of modality, and antipsychologism in philosophy of logic.; Develops philosophically ambitious ideas in a style accessible to non-specialists.; Will make us rethink the place o.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The truth in bivalence; title: Deflating deflationism; title: How to find your match; title: Unity of the intellect; title: How can we think about partial truth?; title: Logics of vagueness; title: The Quinean turn; title: The Davidsonian swerve; title: The Lewis twist : mind over matter; title: The bare necessities; title: Metaphysics as intellectual ergonomics.