Substantive Perspectivism An Essay on Philosophical Concern with Tru
This book is an inquiry into the philosophical concern with truth as one joint subject in philosophy of language and metaphysics and presents a theory of truth, substantive perspectivism (SP). Emphasizing our basic pre-theoretic understanding of truth (i.
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editor-in-Chief:
VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. ´ JAN WOLENSKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
VOLUME 344 For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6607
SUBSTANTIVE PERSPECTIVISM AN ESSAY ON PHILOSOPHICAL CONCERN WITH TRUTH
By BO MOU San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
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Prof. Bo Mou Department of Philosophy San Jose State University San Jose, California 95192 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-2622-4 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2623-1 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2623-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009926814 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To teachers on my way: (Su, Guoxun), (Geng, Liping), (Tu, Jiliang), Richard Feldman, Rolf Eberle, Theodore Sider, Robert Holmes, Donald (Shun, Davidson, Adam Morton, Kwong-loi), Aloysius Martinich
Preface
I have been thinking about the philosophical issue of truth for more than two decades. It is one of several fascinating philosophical issues that motivated me to change my primary reflective interest to philosophy after receiving BS in mathematics in 1982. Some serious academic work in this connection started around the late eighties when I translated into Chinese a dozen of Donald Davidson’s representative essays on truth and meaning and when I assumed translator for Adam Morton who gave a series of lectures on the issue in Beijing (1988), which was co-sponsored by my then institution (Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Science). I have loved the issue both for its own sake (as one specific major issue in the philosophy of language and metaphysics) and for the sake of its significant involvement in many philosophical issues in different subjects of philosophy. Having been attracted to the analytic approach, I was then interested in looking at the issue both from the points of view of classical Chinese philosophy and Marxist philosophy, two major styles or frameworks of doing philosophy during that time in China, and from the point of view of contemporary analytic philosophy, which was then less recognized in
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