A few survivors are still battling through Field's desperately ill-written Saving Truth from Paradox in a reading group here (just on the matter of writing, contrast, e.g. Scott Soames beautifully lucid book Understanding Truth). We are going to stop having got a reasonable sense of Field's positive proposals. I think it is fair to say he isn't carrying conviction! Clever, no doubt: but the techno-flash isn't generating philosophical insight. It falls to me to try to introduce the last...
Published on June 29, 2010 02:12