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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824439703321

Titolo

New essays on Tarski and philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas Patterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-160883-1

1-281-82563-8

9786611825638

0-19-155907-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PattersonDouglas

Disciplina

510.1

Soggetti

Mathematics - Philosophy

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Tarski and his Polish Predecessors on Truth; 3 Polish Axiomatics and its Truth: On Tarski's Leśniewskian Background and the Ajdukiewicz Connection; 4 Tarski's Conceptual Analysis of Semantical Notions; 5 Tarski's Theory of Definition; 6 Tarski's Convention T and the Concept of Truth; 7 Tarski's Conception of Meaning; 8 Tarski, Neurath, and Kokoszyńska on the Semantic Conception of Truth; 9 Tarski's Nominalism; 10 Truth, Meaning, and Translation; 11 Reflections on Consequence; 12 Tarski's Thesis

13 Are There Model-Theoretic Logical Truths that are not Logically True?14 Truth on a Tight Budget: Tarski and Nominalism; 15 Alternative Logics and the Role of Truth in the Interpretation of Languages; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume shows the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). An international group of scholars examine the historical context of Tarski's work, his philosophical development, and his influence on philosophy of language and logic. - ;Tarski and Philosophy aims to show the way to a



proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). The contributors are an international group of scholars, some expert in the historical b