Truth and the absence of fact - Field, Hartry H. (Clarendon Press, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-397) and index
pt. 1. Truth, meaning and propositional attitudes. -- Tarski's Theory of Truth -- Mental representation -- Stalnaker on intentionality -- Deflationist theories of meaning and content -- Attributions of meaning and content -- pt. 2. Indeterminacy and factual defectiveness. Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference -- Quine and the Correspondence Theory -- Disquotational truth and factually defective discourse -- Some thoughts on radical indeterminacy -- Indeterminacy, degree of belief, and excluded middle -- pt. 3. Objectivity. Mathematical objectivity and mathematical objects -- Which undecidable sentences have determinate truth values? -- Apriority as an evaluative notion
Field presents a selection of 13 essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy. Five of the essays are about truth and meaning, five are about semantic indeterminacy, and three are about issues concerning objectivity