Hard Truths

Elijah Millgram (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2009
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-8815-9 (ISBN)

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"Hard Truths focuses upon the fact that coming by such verities is quite difficult and that we must cobble by with far less in our everyday life. Milgram's innovative book challenges us to face this dilemma squarely. " Mark Wilson, Univeristy of Pittsburgh "A fine book: ambitious, provocative, and engaging.

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 with prevailing 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 of metaphysics in our daily lives

Elijah Millgram is E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. He is the editor of Varieties of Practical Reasoning, and author of Practical Induction and Ethics Done Right. A former fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Millgram's research is focused on theory of rationality.

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction

Part I: Motivation

2. The Truth in Bivalence

3. Deflating Deflationism

Part II: Arguments

4. How to Find Your Match

5. Unity of the Intellect

6. How Can We Think about Partial Truth?

Part III: The Competition

7. Logics of Vagueness

Part IV: Applications

8. The Quinean Turn

9. The Davidsonian Swerve

10. The Lewis Twist: Mind Over Matter

11. The Bare Necessities

12. Conclusion: Metaphysics as Intellectual Ergonomics

Appendix: Was There Anything Wrong with Psychologism?

Notes

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2009
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Gewicht	599 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	1-4051-8815-4 / 1405188154
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-8815-9 / 9781405188159
Zustand	Neuware