Descripción del proyecto
El primer examen sistemático de las concepciones filosóficas de la verdad
Qué es la verdad es un concepto que está en el centro de la ciencia, la ética y nuestra vida cotidiana. El equipo del proyecto TAMP, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará los orígenes, las motivaciones y los retos a los que se enfrentaron las concepciones de la verdad en la filosofía antigua y medieval, y cómo estos retos condujeron al desarrollo de teorías alternativas de la verdad. El trabajo del proyecto ofrecerá más información sobre un período rico, pero a menudo olvidado, de la filosofía, y permitirá comprender mejor el concepto en las tradiciones griega, árabe y latina.
Objetivo
While it is sometimes suggested that we are living in a 'post-truth' age wherein the concept of truth is increasingly less relevant, truth nonetheless remains a central concept in science, ethics, and ordinary life. However, what precisely is truth? One common view, the so-called 'correspondence theory of truth', maintains that truth is simply correspondence with the facts. However, such a view faces a number of difficulties and potential objections. For instance, what exactly is correspondence? And what exactly are facts? Moreover, if truth is simply correspondence then why it is the case that correspondence comes in degrees whereas truth is usually agreed not to? And how should we deal with certain semantic paradoxes, such as liar paradoxes, which suggest that our conceptions of truth are internally inconsistent?
The notion that truth consists in correspondence goes back to antiquity and the Middle Ages. However, although past philosophers discussed the nature of truth in significant detail and with considerable philosophical sophistication, our understanding of past theories of truth is surprisingly limited and we lack a clear idea of how notions of truth developed in later antiquity or in the Arabic and Latin medieval traditions. This project will offer the first focused and systematic examination of philosophical conceptions of truth in ancient and medieval philosophy. It will examine the origins, motivations, and challenges faced by conceptions of truth in this period and how these challenges led to the development of alternative theories of truth. By holistically examining both 'major' and 'minor' figures and texts in this period and combining metaphysical approaches to truth with logical and semantic approaches, this project will offer us a better understanding of a central philosophical issue across the Greek, Arabic, and Latin traditions and greater insight into an extremely rich but often neglected period of philosophy.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
- humanidadeshistoria y arqueologíahistoriahistoria antigua
- humanidadesfilosofía, ética y religiónfilosofía
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
08007 Barcelona
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