What is Truth?
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What is Truth?

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What is Truth?

About this book

In this collection of original papers, leading international authorities turn their attention to one of the most important questions in theoretical philosophy: what is truth?

To arrive at an answer, two further questions need to be addressed in this context: 1) Does truth possess any essence, any inner nature? and 2) If so, what does this nature consist of?

The present discussion focuses on the antagonism between substantial or robust theories of truth, with correspondence theory taking the lead, and deflationist or minimalist views, which have been commanding an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Whereas substantial theories proceed from the premise that truth has an essence, and that therefore the objective is to discover this essence, the challenge presented by deflationism is to dispense with this very premise.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110164411
eBook ISBN
9783110886665

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. I The Correspondence Theory
  3. Truth: Concept and Property
  4. Truths and Truthmakers
  5. Truth Through Thick and Thin
  6. The Metaphysics of Deflationary Truth
  7. Truth, Meaning, and Reference
  8. II Deflationism Defended
  9. Explanatory vs. Expressive Deflationism about Truth
  10. On Locating Our Interest in Truth
  11. Norms of Truth and Meaning
  12. On Some Critics of Deflationism
  13. III Deflationism Attacked
  14. Minimalism and the Facts about Truth
  15. Disquotationalist Conceptions of Truth
  16. The Truth about Truth
  17. Generalizations of Homophonic Truth-sentences
  18. IV Tarski Challenged
  19. An Argument Against Tarski’s Convention T
  20. What is Truth? Stay for an Answer
  21. V Alternative Approaches
  22. The Two Faces of the Concept of Truth
  23. Truth: A Prolegomenon to a General Theory
  24. How Not to Misunderstand Peirce – A Pragmatist Account of Truth
  25. A Problem about Truth
  26. An Indefinibilist cum Normative View of Truth and the Marks of Truth
  27. Index of Subjects
  28. Index of Names
  29. Contributors