Truth as a Normative Property

null, Jinho Kang (Seoul National University)

The Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research (VICTR) presents: Jinho Kang (Seoul National University), “Truth as a Normative Property” on May 11, 10:00am KST / 00:00 UTC / May 10, 8:00pm EDT. 

Abstract: I criticize the widely held assumption that truth is a descriptive property and argue that it should be understood as a normative property. I first spell out under what condition a property should count as normative, and argue that the property of being true meets this condition. I then address various objections to the normativity thesis, including the ones based on the correspondence intuition, the Tarski T-schema, and the implausibility of a Moorean open question argument for truth. I show that all of them can be answered.

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