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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966352503321

Titolo

Truth, reference and realism / / edited by Zsolt Novak and Andras Simonyi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-003-72349-7

1-283-29289-0

9786613292896

1-4416-9799-3

963-9776-92-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NovakZsolt

SimonyiAndras

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Truth

Reference (Philosophy)

Realism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Papers ... presented by the authors at the first Oxford-Budapest conference at Central European University in Budapest, 28-30 April 2005."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""The Reality of Mathematics and the Case of Set Theory""; ""Conceptualism and Knowledge of Logic: A Budget of Problems""; ""What is Logic?""; ""Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality""; ""The Refutation of Expressivism""; ""Benacerraf's Problem, Abstract Objects and Intellect""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The volume presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005. The problem addressed by the conference, famously formulated by Paul Benacerraf in a paper on Mathematical Truth, was how to understand truth in the semantics of discourses about abstract domains whose objects and properties cannot be observed by sense perception. The papers of the volume focus on this semantic issue in four major fields:



logic, mathematics, ethics and the metaphysics of properties in general. Beyond marking an important event, the collected papers are also substantial contributions to the above topic, from the most distinguished authors in these areas.