The Epistemic Lightness of Truth: Deflationism and its Logic
Cambridge University Press, 12/7/2017
EAN 9781107197657, ISBN10: 1107197651
Hardcover, 312 pages, 25.1 x 17.5 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
This book analyses and defends the deflationist claim that there is nothing deep about our notion of truth. According to this view, truth is a 'light' and innocent concept, devoid of any essence which could be revealed by scientific inquiry. Cezary Cieśliński considers this claim in light of recent formal results on axiomatic truth theories, which are crucial for understanding and evaluating the philosophical thesis of the innocence of truth. Providing an up-to-date discussion and original perspectives on this central and controversial issue, his book will be important for those with a background in logic who are interested in formal truth theories and in current philosophical debates about the deflationary conception of truth.
Introduction
1. Preliminaries
2. Approaches to truth
Part I. Disquotation
3. Disquotational theories
4. Why do we need disquotational truth?
5. The generalisation problem
Part II. Conservativity
6. (Non)conservativity of disquotation
7. CT− and CT
conservativity properties
8. Other compositional truth theories
9. Conservativity
philosophical motivations
10. Maximal conservative theories
11. The conservativeness argument
Part III. Reflection Principles
12. The strength of reflection principles
13. Deflationism and truth-theoretical strength.