The Primitivist Theory of Truth
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The Primitivist Theory of Truth

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The Primitivist Theory of Truth

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Jamin Asay's book offers a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question 'What is truth?', with a comprehensive articulation and defence of primitivism, the view that truth is a fundamental and indefinable concept. Often associated with Frege and the early Russell and Moore, primitivism has been largely absent from the larger conversation surrounding the nature of truth. Asay defends primitivism by drawing on a range of arguments from metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of logic, and navigates between correspondence theory and deflationism by reviving analytic philosophy's first theory of truth. In its exploration of the role that truth plays in our cognitive and linguistic lives, The Primitivist Theory of Truth offers an account of not just the nature of truth, but the foundational role that truth plays in our conceptual scheme. It will be valuable for students and scholars of philosophy of language and of metaphysics.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107440111
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I Identifying primitivism
  6. 1 Truth, TRUTH , and ‘truth’
  7. 2 The golden age of primitivism
  8. 3 A two-pronged theory of truth
  9. Part II Defending primitivism
  10. 4 Metaphysical deflationism
  11. 5 Conceptual primitivism: treadmillsand omnipresence
  12. 6 Conceptual primitivism: openquestions, foundations, and logicalapparatus
  13. 7 Tarski and primitivism
  14. 8 Primitive truth at work
  15. 9 Primitivism and the liar
  16. Conclusion
  17. References
  18. Index