Michael Glanzberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 997685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Glanzberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Glanzberg |
| SIGNATURE | GLANZBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0260-0320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unrestricted quantification and extraordinary context dependence
Judges, experiencers, and taste
This paper reviews the claim that certain predicates, including what are called predicates of personal taste, have a sometimes-hidden element for a judge or experiencer. This claim was advanced in my own earlier work, as well as a number of other papers. My main goal here is to review some of the arguments in favor of this claim, and along the way, to present some of my earlier unpublished work on the matter. In much of the earlier literature, th…
Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood
The chapter starts off with an analysis of the pre-philosophical usage of truth terminology in ancient Greek, followed by a brief survey of some relevant conceptual developments in the pre-Socratic and Sophistic literature. This serves as a foil for the analysis of the various usages of truth terminology in Plato’s metaphysics and epistemology of “Forms.” Whereas truth is here conceived primarily as a quality of the objects of scientific knowledg…
The Coherence Theory of Truth
The coherence theory holds that truth consists in coherence amongst our beliefs. It can thus rule out radical scepticism and avoid the problems of the correspondence theory. Considerations about meaning and verification have also pointed philosophers in the same direction. But if it holds all truth to consist in coherence it is untenable: there must be some truths that do not, truths about what people believe. This causes problems for traditional…
The Oxford Handbook of Truth
This Handbook contains twenty-nine entries, covering a wide range of topics related to the theory of truth, and its applications in philosophy. It surveys how the concept of truth was understood in ancient and modern philosophy and major debates about truth during the emergence of analytic philosophy. It describes the received standard theories of truth in the current literature, including the coherence, correspondence, identity, and pragmatist t…
Semantics and truth relative to a world
Quantification and Contributing Objects to Thoughts
In this paper, I shall explore a determiner in natural language which is ambivalent as to whether it should be classified as quantificational or objectdenoting: the determiner both. Both in many ways appears to be a paradigmatic quantifier; and yet, I shall argue, it can be interpreted as having an individual—an object—as semantic value. To show the significance of this, I shall discuss two ways of thinking about quantifiers. We often think about…
Context, content, and relativism
Truth, Reflection, and Hierarchies
Quantification and Realism
This paper argues for the thesis that, roughly put, it is impossible to talk about absolutely everything. To put the thesis more precisely, there is a particular sense in which, as a matter of semantics, quantifiers always range over domains that are in principle extensible, and so cannot count as really being ‘absolutely everything’. The paper presents an argument for this thesis, and considers some important objections to the argument and to th…
Minimalism and Paradoxes
Circularity, Definition and Truth
Circularity, Definition and Truth
Book Review| July 01 2002 Circularity, Definition and Truth André Chapuis and Anil Gupta, eds., Circularity, Definition and Truth. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2000. Pp. vi, 402. Michael Glanzberg Michael Glanzberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 465–470. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-465 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search …
The Taming of the True
The Taming of the True
Book Review| April 01 2000 The Taming of the True THE TAMING OF THE TRUE. By Neil Tennant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 465. Michael Glanzberg Michael Glanzberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 290–293. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-2-290 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Glanzberg; …
Quantification and Realism
This paper argues for the thesis that, roughly put, it is impossible to talk about absolutely everything. To put the thesis more precisely, there is a particular sense in which, as a matter of semantics, quantifiers always range over domains that are in principle extensible, and so cannot count as really being ‘absolutely everything’. The paper presents an argument for this thesis, and considers some important objections to the argument and to th…
Semantics and truth relative to a world
Truth, Reflection, and Hierarchies
The Taming of the True
The Taming of the True
Book Review| April 01 2000 The Taming of the True THE TAMING OF THE TRUE. By Neil Tennant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 465. Michael Glanzberg Michael Glanzberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 290–293. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-2-290 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Glanzberg; …
Circularity, Definition and Truth
Circularity, Definition and Truth
Book Review| July 01 2002 Circularity, Definition and Truth André Chapuis and Anil Gupta, eds., Circularity, Definition and Truth. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2000. Pp. vi, 402. Michael Glanzberg Michael Glanzberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 465–470. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-465 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search …
Minimalism and Paradoxes
Quantification and Realism
This paper argues for the thesis that, roughly put, it is impossible to talk about absolutely everything. To put the thesis more precisely, there is a particular sense in which, as a matter of semantics, quantifiers always range over domains that are in principle extensible, and so cannot count as really being ‘absolutely everything’. The paper presents an argument for this thesis, and considers some important objections to the argument and to th…
Truth, Reflection, and Hierarchies
Context, content, and relativism
Quantification and Contributing Objects to Thoughts
In this paper, I shall explore a determiner in natural language which is ambivalent as to whether it should be classified as quantificational or objectdenoting: the determiner both. Both in many ways appears to be a paradigmatic quantifier; and yet, I shall argue, it can be interpreted as having an individual—an object—as semantic value. To show the significance of this, I shall discuss two ways of thinking about quantifiers. We often think about…
Semantics and truth relative to a world
Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood
The chapter starts off with an analysis of the pre-philosophical usage of truth terminology in ancient Greek, followed by a brief survey of some relevant conceptual developments in the pre-Socratic and Sophistic literature. This serves as a foil for the analysis of the various usages of truth terminology in Plato’s metaphysics and epistemology of “Forms.” Whereas truth is here conceived primarily as a quality of the objects of scientific knowledg…
The Coherence Theory of Truth
The coherence theory holds that truth consists in coherence amongst our beliefs. It can thus rule out radical scepticism and avoid the problems of the correspondence theory. Considerations about meaning and verification have also pointed philosophers in the same direction. But if it holds all truth to consist in coherence it is untenable: there must be some truths that do not, truths about what people believe. This causes problems for traditional…
The Oxford Handbook of Truth
This Handbook contains twenty-nine entries, covering a wide range of topics related to the theory of truth, and its applications in philosophy. It surveys how the concept of truth was understood in ancient and modern philosophy and major debates about truth during the emergence of analytic philosophy. It describes the received standard theories of truth in the current literature, including the coherence, correspondence, identity, and pragmatist t…
Judges, experiencers, and taste
This paper reviews the claim that certain predicates, including what are called predicates of personal taste, have a sometimes-hidden element for a judge or experiencer. This claim was advanced in my own earlier work, as well as a number of other papers. My main goal here is to review some of the arguments in favor of this claim, and along the way, to present some of my earlier unpublished work on the matter. In much of the earlier literature, th…
Unrestricted quantification and extraordinary context dependence
Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Metaphysics (8 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (8 works) · Philosophy of science (6 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (5 works) · Philosophy of language (5 works)