TY - JOUR
T1 - Truth and Knowledge in F.P. Ramsey's Essays: A Pragmatic Overview
AU - Lizzadri, Antonio
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper aims to renew the “deflationary” interpretation of Ramsey’s theory of truth, with respect to his declared “pragmatist tendency”, which was not completely developed due to his premature death. This aim is not only historical-philosophical, but also exquisitely theoretical, since the mediation of pragmatism allowed Ramsey to achieve an original synthesis among different philosophical instances. In order to show this, I pay attention to the debate between Ramsey and some spokespeople of the leading British philosophical traditions at the beginning of the Twentieth Century (especially Neo-idealism, Neo-empiricism and Oxford Realism), through which it will stand out how Ramsey’s logical analysis of the truth predicate was embedded within a wider theoretical context, involving a pragmatic theory of knowledge and even a “general psychological theory”. Indeed, the truth of a belief will be defined in relation to mental factors, in so far as they involve a successful disposition to behave.
AB - This paper aims to renew the “deflationary” interpretation of Ramsey’s theory of truth, with respect to his declared “pragmatist tendency”, which was not completely developed due to his premature death. This aim is not only historical-philosophical, but also exquisitely theoretical, since the mediation of pragmatism allowed Ramsey to achieve an original synthesis among different philosophical instances. In order to show this, I pay attention to the debate between Ramsey and some spokespeople of the leading British philosophical traditions at the beginning of the Twentieth Century (especially Neo-idealism, Neo-empiricism and Oxford Realism), through which it will stand out how Ramsey’s logical analysis of the truth predicate was embedded within a wider theoretical context, involving a pragmatic theory of knowledge and even a “general psychological theory”. Indeed, the truth of a belief will be defined in relation to mental factors, in so far as they involve a successful disposition to behave.
KW - Ramsey, Truth, Knowledge, Pragmatism, Realism
KW - Ramsey, verità, conoscenza, pragmatismo, realismo
KW - Ramsey, Truth, Knowledge, Pragmatism, Realism
KW - Ramsey, verità, conoscenza, pragmatismo, realismo
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/203532
U2 - 10.1007/s12136-021-00502-z
DO - 10.1007/s12136-021-00502-z
M3 - Article
SN - 0353-5150
VL - 37
SP - 489
EP - 505
JO - Acta Analytica
JF - Acta Analytica
ER -