Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
by Christopher S. Hill (Author) › Visit Amazon’s Christopher S. Hill Page See search results for this author Christopher S. Hill (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (11 July 2002)
Language: English
Hardcover: 168 pages
ISBN-10: 0521814847
ISBN-13: 9780521814843
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Book Description
There is an important family of semantic notions that we apply to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts – as when we say that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Thought and World presents a theory of the content of such notions. The theory is largely deflationary in spirit, in the sense that it represents a broad range of semantic notions – including the concept of truth – as being entirely free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. At the same time, however, it takes seriously and seeks to explain the intuition that there is a metaphysically or empirically ‘deep’ relation (a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondence) linking thoughts to reality. Thus, the theory represents a kind of compromise between deflationism and versions of the correspondence theory of truth. This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the philosophy of logic and language.