Looking across languages: Anglocentrism, cross-linguistic experimental philosophy, and the future of inquiry about truth
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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/16012Abstract
Analytic debates about truth are wide-ranging, but certain key themes tend to crop up time and again. The three themes that we will examine in this talk are (i) the nature and behaviour of the ordinary concept of truth, (ii) the meaning of the truth predicate, and (iii) the nature of the property truth. We will start by offering a brief overview of the debates centering on these themes. We will then argue that cross-linguistic experimental philosophy has an indispensable yet underappreciated role to play in all of these debates. Recognising the indispensability of cross-linguistic experimental philosophy should compel philosophers to significantly revise the ways in which they inquire about truth. It should also prompt analytic philosophers more generally to consider whether similar revisions might be necessary elsewhere in the field.
Date
2023-07-04Rights
This presentation is intended for the 2023 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, which was held at Australian Catholic University.
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