Truth and objectivity in conceptual engineering

Truth Wronged: Crispin Wright's Truth and Objectivity

husserl’s phenomenological constitution: intersubjectivity: truth and objectivity

the present article studies husserl’s solution about the possibility of knowledge. this solution expresses itself in the constitutive analyses that he has made. by using decartes’methodic doubt, husserl establishes pure consciousness. then he describes phenomenologically its data and shows how to be constituted phenomena in consciousness. after explaining the process of the constitution of mate...

“Conceptual Truth”

The paper criticizes epistemological conceptions of analytic or conceptual truth, on which assent to such truths is a necessary condition of understanding them. The critique involves no Quinean scepticism about meaning. Rather, even granted that a paradigmatic candidate for analyticity is synonymous with a logical truth, both the former and the latter can be intelligibly doubted by linguistical...

Conceptual Truth Defended

Since (2) and (3) entail that someone could have justified true belief but no knowledge, we may conclude that knowledge cannot be justified true belief. In much the same vein, Davidson (1987, 47) devises his swampman-scenario to convince us that historical properties are essential for meaning, and Searle (1984) intends his story of the Chinese room to make us see that understanding is not reduc...

Truth as Utility: A Conceptual Synthesis

This paper introduces conceptual relations tlrat syntlresizc utilitarian and logical con­ cepts, extending the logics of preference of [{escher. We define first, in the context of a possible­ worlds modeL constraint-dependent mea­ sures that quantify the relative quality of al­ temative solutions of reasoning problems or the relative desirabi lity of various policies in coutrol. decision, and p...