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New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy
Douglas Patterson
448 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-929630-9
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Hardback
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18 September 2008
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- Features new essays by some of the world's leading philosophers
- Contains extensive coverage of Tarski's intellectual context and background
- Relates historical material to contemporary issues, placing Tarski in context
New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy aims to show the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). The contributors are an international group of scholars, some expert in the historical background and context of Tarski's work, others specializing in aspects of his philosophical development, others more interested in understanding Tarski in the light of contemporary thought.
The essays can be seen as addressing Tarski's seminal treatment of four basic questions about logical consequence. (1) How are we to understand truth, one of
the notions in terms of which logical consequence is explained? What is it that is preserved in valid inference, or that such inference allows us to discover new claims to have on the basis of old? (2) Among what kinds of things does the relation of logical consequence hold? (3) Given answers to the first two questions, what is involved in the consequence relationship itself? What is the preservation at work in 'truth preservation'? (4) Finally, what do truth and consequence so construed have to do with meaning?Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy, particularly logic, language, and mathematics
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Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University Contributors:
Contributors
Jody Azzouni, Tufts University
Arianna Betti, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marian David, University of Notre Dame
John Etchemendy, Stanford University
Solomon Feferman, Stanford University
Greg Frost-Arnold, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mario Gomez-Torrente, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Wilfrid Hodges, Queen Mary, University of London
Paolo Mancosu, University
of California, Berkeley
Roman Murawski, Adam Mickiewicz University , Pozna
Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University
Panu Raatikainen, University of Helsinki
Gila Sher, University of California, San Diego
Peter Simons, University of Leeds
Jan Wolenski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
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1: Douglas Patterson: Introduction
2: Roman Murawski and Jan Wolenski: Tarski and His Polish Predecessors on Truth
3: Arianna Betti: Polish Axiomatics and its Truth: On Tarski's Lesniewskian Background and the Ajdukiewicz Connection
4: Solomon Feferman: Tarski's Conceptual Analysis of Semantical Notions
5: Wilfrid Hodges: Tarski's Theory of Definition
6: Marian David: Tarski's Convention T and the Concept of Truth
7: Douglas Patterson: Tarski's Conception of Meaning
8: Paolo Mancosu: Tarski, Neurath and Kokoszynska on the Semantic Conception of Truth
9: Greg Frost-Arnold: Tarski's Nominalism
10: Panu Raatikainen: Truth, Meaning, and Translation
11: John Etchemendy: Reflections on Consequence
12: Gila Sher: Tarski's Thesis
13: Mario Gomez-Torrente: Are There Model-Theoretic Logical Truths That Are Not Logically True?
14: Peter Simons: Truth on a Tight Budget: Tarski and Nominalism
15: Jody Azzouni: Alternative Logics and the Role of Truth in the Interpretation of Languages
Index
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