Truth and Speech Acts
Studies in the Philosophy of Language
Price: $140.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-40651-2
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 22nd June 2007
- Pages: 416
About the Book
Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to the task of illuminating the relationship between truth and illocutionary acts. This book fills that gap.
This innovative collection addresses such themes as:
- the relation between the concept of truth and the success conditions of assertions and kindred speech acts
- the linguistic devices of expressing the truth of a proposition
- the relation between predication and truth.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: The Illocutionary Significance of the Concept of Truth Part 2: Truth and Assertion Part 3: The Normativity of Truth Part 4: Truth and Propositional Meaning
About the Author(s)
Dirk Greimann is Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil.
Geo Siegwart is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Greifswald, Germany.