Truth
By: Chase Wrenn
Series: Key concepts in philosophy series; Key concepts in philosophy series (Polity Press)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780745663234; 9780745663241; 9780745688145
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Truth
Description: Surveys a full range of theories of the nature of truth and evaluates their philosophical costs and benefits.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: What is Truth? -- -- 1.1.; title: Truth and the Truth -- -- 1.2.; title: Truth Bearers -- -- 1.3.; title: Being True and Being Taken to be True -- -- 1.4.; title: What Lies Ahead -- -- 2.; title: Objectivity -- -- 2.1.; title: Three Pictures of Reality -- -- 2.2.; title: Realism -- -- 2.3.; title: Relativism -- -- 2.4.; title: Anti-Realism -- -- 2.5.; title: Objectivity and the Equivalence Principle -- -- 3.; title: Truth and Value -- -- 3.1.; title: Is Truth Essentially a Kind of Goodness? -- -- 3.2.; title: What Makes Truth Valuable? -- -- 3.3.; title: Conclusion -- -- 4.; title: Epistemic Theories of Truth -- -- 4.1.; title: Skepticism and What Our Tests Test -- -- 4.2.; title: The Coherence Theory of Truth -- -- 4.3.; title: Problems for Coherentism -- -- 4.4.; title: Pragmatic Theories of Truth -- -- 4.5.; title: Epistemic Theories and the Equivalence Principle -- -- 4.6.; title: Epistemic Theories, Realism, and Anti-Realism -- -- 4.7.; title: Epistemic Theories and the Value of Truth -- -- 4.8.; title: Final Assessment of Epistemic Theories -- -- 5.; title: Correspondence Theories of Truth -- -- 5.1.; title: The Idea that Truth Depends on the World -- -- 5.2.; title: Classical Correspondence Theories -- -- 5.3.; title: From Classical to Causal Correspondence -- -- 5.4.; title: Problems for Causal Correspondence -- -- 5.5.; title: Truthmakers -- -- 5.6.; title: The Scope Problem -- -- 5.7.; title: The Equivalence Principle, Realism, and the Value of Truth -- -- 6.; title: Deflationary Theories of Truth -- -- 6.1.; title: A New Way to Think About Truth -- -- 6.2.; title: The Redundancy Theory -- -- 6.3.; title: Disquotationalism -- -- 6.4.; title: Minimalism -- -- 6.5.; title: Resolving the Explanatory and Evidentiary Problems -- -- 6.6.; title: Deflationism, the Equivalence Principle, and Realism -- -- 6.7.; title: Deflationism and the Value of Truth -- -- 7.; title: Pluralist Theories of Truth -- -- 7.1.; title: Truth Monism and Truth Pluralism -- -- 7.2.; title: The Scope Problem Again -- -- 7.3.; title: Two Problems for Deflationism -- -- 7.4.; title: Simple Pluralism and Wright's View -- -- 7.5.; title: Simple Pluralism, Mixed Compounds, and Mixed Inferences -- -- 7.6.; title: Alethic Functionalism -- -- 7.7.; title: Objections to Pluralist Theories of Truth -- -- 7.8.; title: Pluralism's Scorecard -- -- 8.; title: Deflationism Revisited -- -- 8.1.; title: Advancing the Debates -- -- 8.2.; title: Common Ground and Methodological Deflationism -- -- 8.3.; title: Deflationism vs. the Causal Correspondence Theory -- -- 8.4.; title: Deflationism vs. Pluralism -- -- 8.5.; title: Conclusion.