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Models, Truth, and Realism (Hardcover)
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Models, Truth, and Realism (Hardcover)
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Barry Taylor's book mounts an argument against one of the
fundamental tenets of much contemporary philosophy, the idea that
we can make sense of reality as existing objectively, independently
of our capacities to come to know it. Part One sets the scene by
arguings that traditional realism can be explicated as a doctrine
about truth - that truth is objective, that is, public, bivalent,
and epistemically independent. Part Two, the centrepiece of the
book, shows how a form of Hilary Putnam's model-theoretic argument
demonstrates that no such notion of truth can be founded on the
idea of correspondence, as explained in model-theoretic terms (more
traditional accounts of correspondence having been already disposed
of in Part One). Part Three argues that non-correspondence accounts
of truth - truth as superassertibility or idealized rational
acceptability, formal conceptions of truth, Tarskian truth - also
fail to meet the criteria for objectivity; along the way, it also
dismisses the claims of the latterday views of Putnam, and of
similar views articulated by John McDowell, to constitute a new,
less traditional form of realism. In the Coda, Taylor bolsters some
of the considerations advanced in Part Three in evaluating formal
conceptions of truth, by assessing and rejecting the claims of
Robert Brandom to have combined such an account of truth with a
satisfactory account of semantic structure. He concludes that there
is no defensible notion of truth which preserves the theses of
traditional realism, nor any extant position sufficiently true to
the ideals of that doctrine to inherit its title. So the only
question remaining is which form of antirealism to adopt.
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