Truth and Speech Acts Studies in the Philosophy of Language [Hardcover]

Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to the task of illuminating the relationship between truth and illocutionary acts. This book fills that gap.

This innovative collection addresses such themes as:

• the relation between the concept of truth and the success conditions of assertions and kindred speech acts
• the linguistic devices of expressing the truth of a proposition
• the relation between predication and truth.

Introduction  Part 1: The Illocutionary Significance of the Concept of Truth  Part 2: Truth and Assertion  Part 3: The Normativity of Truth  Part 4: Truth and Propositional Meaning

Dirk Greimann is Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil.

Geo Siegwart is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Greifswald, Germany.