Outline of a Dialogical Theory of Truth
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In this essay I propose two theories of truth and show how they deal with semantic paradoxes. Their most salient feature is that they are based on a gametheoretic understanding of logic and meaning. “Truth”, therefore, is understood dialogically, as agreement between parts. I compare this proposal with a similar one already existing in the literature —Dutilh Novaes and French 2018—, and highlight the advantages of mine. The theories of truth I present are non-trivial, substructural (in a sense to be clarified) and capture strong intuitions about truth. Some philosophical recommendations in favor of our understanding of Dialogics are delivered along the way.
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Álvarez Lisboa, M. (2023). Outline of a Dialogical Theory of Truth. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana De Filosofía, 55(164), 3–25. https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2023.1422
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03343-w
Clerbout, Nicolas, 2014a, Étude sur quelques sémantiques dialogiques. Concepts fondamentaux et éléments de metathéorie, Ph.D. thesis, Leiden and Lille Universities.
Clerbout, Nicolas, 2014b, “Finiteness of Plays and the Dialogical Problem of Decidability”, IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 115–130.
Clerbout, Nicolas and Zoe McConaughey, 2022, “Dialogical Logic”, in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy” (Fall Edition).
https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2022/entries/logic-dialogical/.
Cobreros, Pablo, Paul Egré, David Ripley, and Robert van Rooij, 2013, “Reaching Transparent Truth”, Mind, vol. 122, no. 488, pp. 841–866.
https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzt110
Cobreros, Pablo, Paul Egré, David Ripley, and Robert van Rooij, 2012, “Tolerant, Classical, Strict”, The Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 41, pp. 347–385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-010-9165-z
Dutilh Novaes, Catarina, 2015a, “A Dialogical Multi-Agent Account of the Normativity of Logic”, Dialectica, vol. 69, pp. 587–609.
Dutilh Novaes, Catarina, 2015b, “Conceptual Genealogy for Analytic Philosophy”, in J. Bell, A. Cutrofello, P. Livingston (eds.), Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, New York/London.
Dutilh Novaes, Catarina, 2013, “A Dialogical Account of Deductive Reasoning as a Case Study for How Culture Shapes Cognition”, Journal of Cognition and Culture, vol. 13, pp. 459–482.
Dutilh Novaes, Catarina and Rohan French, 2018, “Paradoxes and Structural Rules from a Dialogical Perspective”, Philosophical Issues (Philosophy of Logic and Inferential Reasoning), vol. 28, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/phis.12119
Keiff, Laurent, 2009, “Dialogical Logic”, in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy” (Fall Edition).
https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2009/entries/logic-dialogical/
Keiff, Laurent, 2007, Le Pluralisme Dialogique: Approches Dynamiques de l’Argumentation Formelle, Ph.D. thesis, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3.
Krabbe, Erick C.W., 2006, “Dialogue Logic”, in Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods (eds.), The Handbook of the History of Logic, vol. 7: Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century, pp. 665–704.
Hintikka, Jaakko and Gabriel Sandu, 1997, “Game-Theoretical Semantics”, in Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen (eds.), Handbook of Logic and Language, Elsevier Science Publishers, North Holland, pp. 361–410.
Lorenz, Kuno, 2010, Logic, Language and Method: On Polarities in Human Experience, Walter de Gruyter, New York/Berlin. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216790
Lorenz, Kuno, 2001, “Basic Objectives of Dialogue Logic in Historical Perspective”, Synthese, vol. 127, pp. 255–263. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010367416884
Lorenzen, Paul and Kuno Lorenz, 1978, Dialogische Logik, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt.
Rahman, Shahid, Zoe McConaughey, Ansten Klev and Nicolas Clerbout, 2018, Immanent Reasoning or Equality in Action: A Plaidoyer for the Play Level, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91149-6
Ripley, David, 2015, “Comparing Substructural Theories of Truth”, Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, vol. 2, no. 13, pp. 299–328.
Read, Stephen, 2000, “Harmony and Autonomy in Classical Logic”, Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 123–154. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30226691
Sørensen, Morten Heine, and Paweł Urzyczyn (eds.), 2006, Lectures on the Curry-Howard Isomorphism (Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, vol. 149), ScienceDirect. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0049-237X(06)80005-4
Tennant, Neil, 2015, “A Unified Account of Truth and Paradox”, Mind, vol. 124, no. 494, pp. 571–605. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzu179
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