Truthmakers

The Contemporary Debate

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-928356-9 (ISBN)

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Contains essays on the topic: how the truthmaker principle should be formulated, whether it is well motivated, whether it genuinely has the explanatory roles claimed for it, and whether more modest principles might serve just as well.

1. Introduction ; 2. Why Truthmakers? ; 3. Truthmaking Without Truthmaker Entities ; 4. Realism Beyond Correspondence ; 5. Truthmaking Without Truthmakers ; 6. So Where's The Explanation? ; 7. Truthmakers and Explanation ; 8. Lewis's Animadversions on the Truthmakers Principle ; 9. Armstrong on Truthmaking ; 10. Truthmakers, the Past, and the Future

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2005
Reihe/Serie	Mind Association Occasional Series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 245 mm
Gewicht	447 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	0-19-928356-7 / 0199283567
ISBN-13	978-0-19-928356-9 / 9780199283569
Zustand	Neuware