

Saving the Differences
Essays on Themes from Truth and Objectivity
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ISBN 9780674010772
Publication date: 06/30/2003
Crispin Wright's Truth and Objectivity brought about a far-reaching reorientation of the metaphysical debates concerning realism and truth. The essays in this companion volume prefigure, elaborate, or defend the proposals put forward in that landmark work.
The collection includes the Gareth Evans memorial lecture in which the program of Truth and Objectivity was first announced, as well as all of Wright's published reactions to the extensive commentary his study provoked; it presents substantial new developments and applications of the pluralistic outlook on the realism debates proposed in Truth and Objectivity, and further pursues its distinctive minimalist conceptions of truth and of truth-aptitude. Among the papers are important discussions of coherence conceptions of truth, of Hilary Putnam's most recent views on truth, and of the classical debate between correspondence, coherence, pragmatism, and deflationary conceptions of the notion. Others are concerned with Kripke's famous argument against physicalist conceptions of sensation; the distinction between minimal truth-aptitude and cognitive command; a novel prospectus for a philosophy of vagueness; and a new proposal about the most resilient interpretation of relativism.
Praise
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[A] thorough and subtle examination of [the] multiple criteria of realism.
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Truth and Objectivity is a strikingly resourceful and serious book, imbued with respect for the difficulty of philosophical problems and a readiness to probe them with all the conceptual instruments of contemporary analytic philosophy.
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A milestone in the discussion of realism.
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The collection is a powerful reminder of how much there is to learn from Wright's penetrating work on Wittgenstein or of broadly Wittgensteinian inspiration... Through his stimulating combination of exegesis and philosophical exploration he helps us to a better understanding of the very idea of rails to infinity.
Author
- Crispin Wright is Global Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling, and Regius Professor of Logic Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen.
Book Details
- 560 pages
- 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
- Harvard University Press
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