Truth, Reference and Realism - Hardcover

 
9789639776869: Truth, Reference and Realism
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9639776866 ISBN 13: 9789639776869
Publisher: Central European University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

András Simonyi is Research Fellow at the Applied Logic Laboratory, Budapest. His main areas of research interest are semantics, formal ontologies and philosophy of mathematics.

Zsolt Novák has obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leiden and from Central European University.

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Publisher
Central European University Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9639776866
ISBN 13 
9789639776869
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
314
Editor
Simonyi Andras, Novak Zsolt