Mark Richard

When Truth Gives Out C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this accessible and provocative book Mark Richard argues that the performative and expressive can trump the semantic, making truth the wrong dimension for evaluating a sentence. He explains what it is for truth to be relative, rebuts objections to relativism, assesses objections to expressivism, and gives a novel account of matters of taste.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199239955
• ISBN-10: 0199239959
• Artikelnr.: 26485584

Autorenporträt

Mark Richard is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Tufts University. He is the author of Propositional Attitudes (CUP) and the editor of Meaning (Blackwell). Meaning in Context, a collection of his papers, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Epithets and Attitudes.
2: When Truth Gives Out.
3: What the Emotivist Should Have Said.
4: What's the Matter with Relativism?
5: Matters of Taste.
Appendix I. What Can Be Said?
Appendix II. Relativism and Contextualism about Knowledge.
Bibliography
Index