- Truth and Truth-Making
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View larger image - Editor(s): E. J. Lowe and A. Rami
- ISBN: 1844651452
- ISBN-13: 9781844651450
- Publication Date: 05/12/2008
- Pages: 272 (234 x 156mm)
- Format: Paperback
- Published Price: £19.99
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DESCRIPTION:
Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entity whose existence accounts for truth. This book aims to provide several ways of assessing the correctness of this controversial claim. The book presents a detailed introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making entities, and the scope of a truth-maker theory. The essays brought together here represent the most important articles on truth-making of the past three decades as well as new essays by leading researchers in the field of the theory of truth and of truth-making. -
REVIEWS:
"A useful source. It includes a number of key papers in the truth-maker literature and offers up-to-date views on the existing debates. The volume will provide working philosophers with a handy source of 'classic' papers, as well as some new and innovative ideas and arguments. The range of papers included ought to provide a useful collection for an upper level undergraduate class or graduate class. Anyone who has an interest in the truth-maker debate will most likely find something here that makes it worth owning the book." – Metapsychology
“The theory of truth-making has become in a few years one of the most exciting and difficult topics within theoretical philosophy. This collection is very welcome and will be of great help to newcomers and to afficionados alike.” – Pascal Engel, University of Geneva -
AUTHOR BIO:
E. J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. A. Rami is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. -
CONTENTS:
1. Introduction: truth and truth-making, A. Rami
Part I: Setting the stage
2. Truth and the truth-maker principle in 1921, Kevin Mulligan
3. Truthmakers, Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons and Barry Smith
4. Truth-makers, entailment and necessity, Greg Restall
5. Postscript to "Truth-makers, entailment and necessity", Greg Restall
6. Truth-making and difference-making, David Lewis
7. The general theory of truth-making, D. M. Armstrong
Part II: The current debate
8. Truth-making and correspondence, Marian David
9. Facts and relations: the matter of ontology and of truth-making, Herbert Hochberg
10. Being and truth, Paul Horwich
11. An essentialist approach to truth-making, E. J. Lowe
12. Are there irreducibly relational facts?, Josh Parsons
13. Why truthmakers, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
14. Postscript to "Why truth-makers", Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
Bibliography
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