Jean-Maurice Monnoyer Metaphysics and Truthmakers (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: Metaphysics and Truthmakers Condition: New Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 3110326582 EAN: 9783110326581 ISBN: 9783110326581 Publisher: De Gruyter Release Date: 04/15/2007 Description: The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian substances, states of affairs, meanings or essences ? ). Taking as their starting point a famous seminal paper by K. Mulligan, P. Simons and B. Smith, as well as D. Armstrong’s outstanding contribution to the subject, they offer a fresh assay of the main concepts involved, in order to assess the explanatory value of truthmakers and truthmaker necessitarianism, and explore such delicate issues as contingent truth, bare possibility, tensed propositions, the ontological irreducibility of relations, the subsistence of facts and the epistemic role of negative truths. The collection as a whole provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking survey of the current debate about truthmaking theory and deserves to be read carefully by anyone interested in the relationship between language, thought and reality. With contributions from David ARMSTRONG, Stefano CAPUTO, François CLEMENTZ, Pascal ENGEL, Herbert HOCHBERG, Philipp KELLER, Jonathan LOWE, Jean-Maurice MONNOYER, Kevin MULLIGAN, Stephen MUMFORD, Frederic NEF, Peter SIMONS, Barry SMITH, Jonathan SIMON Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: DE Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 148mm Item Weight: 564g Contributor: Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (Edited by) Author: Jean-Maurice Monnoyer Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality Book Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis Topic: Language & Reference Type: Philosophy Release Year: 2007 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
