Semantics and Truth

• Main Author: Woleński, Jan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 45
• Subjects: Logic.; Semantics.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. This theory became famous very soon and inspired logicians and philosophers. It has t...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Truth in Ancient Philosophy
• Chapter 2. Truth from Anselm of Canterbury to Kant
• Chapter 3. Truth in 19th and 20th Century
• Chapter 4. Tasks of Truth-Theories
• Chapter 5. Matters of Logic
• Chapter 6. Matters of Semantics
• Chapter 7. Semantic Theory of Truth-Informal Aspects
• Chapter 8. Formal Aspects of STT
• Chapter 9. Interpretative, Comparative and Philosophical Issues.