[FOM] Horsten's TARSKIAN TURN

[Kevin Scharp]

I've read the book, and I think it is an important contribution to the
literature.  Horsten is after the most appropriate proof-theoretic formal
theory of truth for deflationism.  He ends up advocating PKF as his theory
of truth and a philosophical view he calls inferential deflationism.  I was
especially intrigued by his arguments for proof-theoretic theories over
model-theoretic ones.  I think he thinks that only proof theoretic theories
can avoid revenge paradoxes, but I'm not positive that that's the right
interpretation of his argument.

Here's a review by Bruni in NDPR:
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/27080-the-tarskian-turn-deflationism-and-axiomatic-truth/

See also Horsten's paper, "Levity," in *Mind*, 2009:
http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/content/118/471/555.short


Kevin Scharp
Associate Professor of Philosophy
The Ohio State University
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/scharp1/
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