Overview
- Elaborates a new theory of truth that coordinates various reasonable perspectives in a holistic system, based on our basic pre-theoretic understanding of truth
- Gives a joint account of three closely related major dimensions of the philosophical concern with truth (i.e., its metaphysical, linguistic and explanatory-role dimensions), from a broad vision
- Engages in the current debate between deflationism and substantivism and is sensitive to recent developments in relevant scholarship
- The first book in the field to give a systematic cross-tradition exploration of the relationship between Daoist thinking of truth and thinking about truth in analytic philosophy
- Gives an engaging case analysis of how Tarski’s, Quine’s and Davidson’s and Daoist approaches to truth can jointly contribute and be complementary in a coordinate system
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 344)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
" "Truth" is applied in so many ways, and in the light of so many philosophies, that one might suspect that no consensus is possible. Mou convinces me that this is false. His discussion brings together accounts of truth from widely divergent sources, and shows how to get them to talk to each other."
Adam Morton (Canada Research Chair in Epistemology and Decision Theory, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Canada)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bo Mou is Professor of Philosophy [effective in May 2009] and Director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at San Jose State University in California, USA. After receiving B.S. in mathematics, Mou obtained graduate degrees in philosophy from Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (M.A.) and from University of Rochester, USA (M.A. and Ph.D.). Mou was President (2002-5) of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP). He has published widely in analytic philosophy, Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy, concerning philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophical methodology and ethics. His scholarly articles appear in such journals as Synthese, Metaphilosophy, the Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy East & West, Asian Philosophy, the Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Polylog. He is contributing editor of Two Roads to Wisdom? –Chinese and Analytic Philosophical Traditions (Open Court, 2001), Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy (Ashgate, 2003), Davidson’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement (Brill, 2006), Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement (Brill, 2008), and History of Chinese Philosophy (Routledge, 2009). He is author of Chinese Philosophy A-Z (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and editor (primary translator) of Truth, Meaning, and Method: Selections from the Philosophical Writings of Donald Davidson (Commercial Press, 2008) (in Chinese). Mou is currently finishing a monograph on reference and predication concerning the relation of language to objects and thought.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Substantive Perspectivism: An Essay on Philosophical Concern with Truth
Authors: Bo Mou
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2623-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2622-4Published: 21 September 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3043-4Published: 07 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2623-1Published: 16 September 2009
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 217
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Non-Western Philosophy, Ontology, Epistemology, Logic