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Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einleitung -- I. Der wahrheitstheoretische Deflationismus -- II. Wahrheit definiert: Tarskis Leistung -- III. Wahrheit und Bedeutung: Davidsons Projekt -- IV. Radikale Interpretation: Quine und Davidson -- V. Wahrheit als Korrespondenz -- VI. Wahrheit ohne Referenz? -- VII. Ontologische Relativität? -- VIII. Antirealismus: Die Herausforderung -- IX. Antirealismus: Das positive semantische Programm -- X. Met...

The debate between internalism and externalism has become a focal point of attention both in epistemology and in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism challenges basic traditional internalist conceptions of the nature of knowledge, justification, thought and language. What is at stake, is the very form that theories in epistemology and the philosophy of mind ought to take. This volume is a collection of original contributions of lea...

Dieser Band ist eine Sammlung von Vorträgen, die auf einer Tagung mit dem Titel "Aktuelle Probleme der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung" gehalten wurden, die im Sommer 2007 an der Universität Siegen stattfand. Der Band verfolgt das Ziel, den Reichtum und die Lebendigkeit von wichtigen gegenwärtigen Debatten in der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung zu dokumentieren. Die Philosophie der Wahrnehmung spielt in verschiedenen philosophischen Kerndisziplinen-in...

Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted against the concept of meaning by Willard Van Quine and Saul Kripke and their adherents in particular. Thus the texts attempt to answer the fundamental questions - of whether there are meanings, an...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference 2008, held in Leuven, Belgium, in December 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on platforms extended to new capabilities, advanced software engineering focusing on specific system properties, system m...

In this collection of original papers, leading international authorities turn their attention to one of the most important questions in theoretical philosophy: what is truth? To arrive at an answer, two further questions need to be addressed in this context: 1) Does truth possess any essence, any inner nature? and 2) If so, what does this nature consist of? The present discussion focuses on the antagonism between substantial or robust theori...