What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving theconcept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today. INDICE: Series Editors' Preface - Notes on the Editors - List of Contributors - PART I: DEFLATIONISM AND BEYOND - Truth as Conceptually Primitive; D.Patterson - Rejectionism about Truth; M.Eklund - New Wave Deflationism; N.Damnjanovic - Why Deflationists should be Pretense Theorists (and Perhaps Already Are); B.Armour-Garb & J.A.Woodbridge - PART II: ASCRIPTION, ATTRIBUTION, PREDICATION - Compendious Assertion and Natural Language (Generalized) Quantification:A Problem for Deflationary Truth; J.Collins - Explicit Truth Ascriptions; C.Horisk - PART III: TRUTH VALUES - Deflationism and Gaps; P.Greenough - Falsity;K.Scharp - PART IV: THE VALUE OF TRUTH - Metarepresentation and the CognitiveValue of the Concept of Truth; G.Rattan - Truth, Autonomy, and the Plurality of Goods; A.Kovach - True Belief is not Instrumentally Valuable; C.B.Wrenn - PART V: REALISM AND CORRESPONDENCE - The Makings of Truth: Realism, Response-dependence, and Relativism; D.López de Sa - Truth, Pluralism, Monism, Correspondence; C.D.Wright & N.J.L.L.Pedersen - Representation-Friendly Deflationism versus Modest Correspondence; P.Marino - PART VI: KINDS OF TRUTH AND TRUTH-APT DISCOURSE - Truth and Error in Morality; D.Dorsey - Perspectival Truth and ColorPrimitivism; B.Brogaard - A New Problem for the Linguistic Doctrine of Necessary Truth; G.Russell - How to be an Expressivist about Truth; M.Schroeder - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58070-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 06/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés