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Truth and Objectivity

By Crispin Wright

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0674910877, 9780674910874, 9780674910867, 0674910869
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1660059 bytes)
Pages
252\252
DPI
400
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical "deflationary" conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the "deflationary" conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.

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