From Truth to Reality New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics [Paperback]

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking Are there numbers? But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking Is the sentence 'There are numbers' true? Such semantic ascent implies that reality can be investigated by investigating our true sentences. This line of thought was dominant in twentieth century philosophy, but is now beginning to be called into question.

InFrom Truth to Reality, Heather Dyke brings together some of the foremost metaphysicians to examine approaches to truth, reality, and the connections between the two. This collection features new and previously unpublished material by JC Beall, Mark Colyvan, Michael Devitt, John Heil, Frank Jackson, Fred Kroon, D. H. Mellor, Luca Moretti, Alan Musgrave, Robert Nola, J. J. C. Smart, Paul Snowdon, and Daniel Stoljar.

Part I: Truth

'Unsettledness' in Bivalent Language: A Modest, Nonepistemic Idea

JC Beall

Vagueness and Truth

Mark Colyvan

Part II: Reality

Biological Realism

Michael Devitt

Pleonastic Platonism

Alan Musgrave

Anomalous Monism

John Heil

On the Metaphysical Implications of Some Epistemological Commonplaces

Frank Jackson

Mathematical Platonism

J. J. C. Smart

Part III: Truth and Reality

On Creeping Minimalism and the Nature of Minimal Entities

Luca Moretti

Hempel's Dilemma

Daniel Stoljar

From Reality to Truth: The Case of Electrons and Electron Theory

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