New Waves in Truth

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Two decades ago, there was a great flurry of work on the subject of truth, which subsequently set much of the agenda for future debates. Interest in the subject of truth remains unabated at all levels of inquiry, both within philosophy and from without, in both academic and popular guises. But while truth continues to be of focal interest, it seems that there have been remarkably fewer new directions since then. New Waves in Truth offers eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic ...

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Overview

Two decades ago, there was a great flurry of work on the subject of truth, which subsequently set much of the agenda for future debates. Interest in the subject of truth remains unabated at all levels of inquiry, both within philosophy and from without, in both academic and popular guises. But while truth continues to be of focal interest, it seems that there have been remarkably fewer new directions since then. New Waves in Truth offers eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today. Contributions to the volume span truth ascriptions, deflationism, realism and the correspondence theory, the value of truth, and kinds of truth and truth-apt discourse. The research programs of the contributors are beginning to reset that agenda, and each is positioned to make new waves throughout the subject.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780230229983
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 9/14/2010
  • Series: New Waves in Philosophy Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 336
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

NIKOLAJ J. L. L. PEDERSEN is currently a Research Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles, USA and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen and the Arché Research Centre at the University of St. Andrews, UK. 
 
CORY D. WRIGHT is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University Long Beach, USA. Previously, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Universiteit Utrecht, a James S. McDonnell post-doctoral fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University St. Louis, and a visiting fellow at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Universiteit van Tilburg.

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Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface ix

Notes on Editors x

List of Contributors xi

Truth: The New Wave Cory D. Wright Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen 1

Part I Deflationism and Beyond

1 Truth as Conceptually Primitive Douglas Patterson 13

2 Rejectionism about Truth Matti Eklund 30

3 New Wave Deflationism Nic Damnjanovic 45

4 Why Deflationists Should be Pretense Theorists (and Perhaps Already are) Bradley Armour-Garb James A. Woodbridge 59

Part II Ascription, Attribution, Predication

5 Compendious Assertion and Natural Language (Generalized) Quantification: A Problem for Deflationary Truth John Collins 81

6 Explicit Truth Ascriptions Claire Horisk 97

Part III Truth Values

7 Deflationism and Truth Value Gaps Patrick Greenough 115

8 Falsity Kevin Scharp 126

Part IV The Value of Truth

9 Metarepresentation and the Cognitive Value of the Concept of Truth Gurpreet Rattan 139

10 Truth, Autonomy, and the Plurality of Goods Adam Kovach 157

11 True Belief Is Not Instrumentally Valuable Chase B. Wrenn 174

Part V Realism and Correspondence

12 The Makings of Truth: Realism, Response-Dependence, and Relativism Dan López de Sa 191

13 Truth, Pluralism, Monism, Correspondence Cory D. Wright Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen 205

14 Representation-Friendly Deflationism versus Modest Correspondence Patricia Marino 218

Part VI Kinds of Truth and Truth-apt Discourse

15 Truth and Error in Morality Dale Dorsey 235

16 Perspectival Truth and Color Primitive Berit Brogaard 249

17 A New Problem for the Linguistic Doctrine of Necessary Truth Gillian Russell 267

18 How to Be an Expressivist about Truth Mark Schroeder 282

References 299

Index 313

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