TY - BOOK ID - 78074347 TI - New frontiers in truth AU - Bacchini, Fabio AU - Caputo, Stefano AU - Dell'Utri, Massimo PY - 2014 SN - 1443873977 9781443873970 1322608121 9781322608129 9781443868068 144386806X 144386806X 9781443868068 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Truth KW - Conviction KW - Belief and doubt KW - Philosophy KW - Skepticism KW - Certainty KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Pragmatism KW - Deflationary theory of truth KW - Deflationism KW - Deflationary theory. KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78074347 AB - Although philosophers have been concerned with truth since at least the age of Plato, the last thirty years have witnessed a veritable explosion of the philosophical debate on this topic. The touchpaper which lit the fuse for this was undoubtedly the Deflationist Renaissance (half a century after the seminal work of F.P. Ramsey) due, in the Seventies, both to the Quinean disquotational interpretation of the Tarskian truth definitions and to the development of the prosentential theory of truth. ER -