短期课程 Truth: An Introduction to Revision Theory 

讲授人：Anil Gupta  美国匹兹堡大学哲学系

时间：2018年4月23日至5月2日

地点：北京师范大学主楼A809；时间详见课程说明

Anil Gupta 个人简介：

当代哲学家，美国匹兹堡大学哲学系Alan Ross Anderson讲席教授，杰出教授，科学哲学中心研究员，美国艺术科学研究院院士，2012-2015年任系主任（注：匹兹堡大学哲学学科QS排名已连续三年全球第一）。Anil Gupta的主要研究领域为逻辑、语言哲学、形上学和知识论，他感兴趣的主题包括定义、真、意义和知觉。他目前是学术刊物Philosophy and Phenomenological Research的编辑。他的主要作品有Empiricism and Experience (Oxford, 2006)，Truth, Meaning, Experience (Oxford, 2011)。此外，Anil Gupta还与Nuel Belnap合著了The Revision Theory of Truth (MIT, 1993)一书。

若您感兴趣，可进一步浏览以下网站了解讲授人信息：

Anil Gupta 个人主页：www.philosophy.pitt.edu/person/anil-gupta；3AM有一个对Anil Gupta的采访，在其中他谈到了自己成为哲学家的经历、思考的哲学问题等，见www.3ammagazine.com/3am/post-truth-logical-experience-knowledge-circularity-truth-etc/。

课程介绍：

This short course provides an introduction to the revision theory of truth. Prerequisites for the course are minimal, namely, knowledge of basic logic. The course presupposes no prior acquaintance with theories of truth.

4月23日  周一  10.00-12.00  Lecture 1: Truth and Definitions

We will begin by isolating the problem to be addressed, and we will go on to discuss Alfred Tarski’s influential views about the concept of truth. We will set out a framework within which the problem of truth will be addressed. It will be argued that the problem requires that we develop a general logical theory of definitions, one that makes sense of interdependent definitions.

4月25日 周三  10.00-12.00  Lecture 2: A General Theory of Definitions
A theory of definitions, S, will be presented. This theory is different from the principal revision theories S# and S*. It will be argued that S is superior, in some respects, to S# and S* and that it captures the minimal general logic of definitions.

4月27日  周五  10.00-12.00  Lecture 3: A Theory of Truth

We will use the theory of definitions S to construct a new theory of truth T. We will establish some important properties of T.

五一假期  (4月29日至5月1日)

5月2日  周三 15.30-17.30  Lecture 4: The Usefulness of Truth
We will compare theory T with principal theories of truth found in the literature, including Saul Kripke’s theory. We will address some objections to T, and we will use this theory to make some observations about the role the concept of truth plays in our conceptual system.

若您感兴趣，本次课程还提供了一些阅读材料，见下

Chihara, Charles 1979: The semantic paradoxes: a diagnostic investigation. Philosophical Review 88, 590-618.

Kremer, Philip 2016: The revision theory of truth. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

Kripke, Saul 1975: Outline of a theory of truth. Journal of Philosophy 1975, 690-716.

Tarski, Alfred 1944: The semantic conception of truth. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4, 341-376.


说明：每次课程共两节课，各45分钟，期间休息10分钟。每次课程结束会有20分钟左右的讨论时间。每次课程前均会提供相关纸质讲义。上述论文为课前推荐的阅读文献，非必读。

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