New waves in truth / edited by Cory D. Wright, Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, Cory D., 1975-

Pedersen, Nikolaj J. L. L., 1978-

Series:

New waves in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Physical Description:

xii, 319 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Contents:

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 Cognitive Value 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 Sa, D. López de

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 Color Primitivism / B. Brogaard

A New Problem for the Linguistic Doctrine of Necessary Truth / G. Russell

How to be an Expressivist about Truth / M. Schroeder.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.

ISBN:

9780230229983

0230229980

9780230580701

023058070X

OCLC:

506248753