New Waves in Truth [Hardcover]

What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving the concept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today.Series Editors' Preface Notes on the Editors List of Contributors 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.L?pez de Sa 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 IndexBRADLEY ARMOUR-GARB is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, Albany, USABERIT BROGAARD is Associate Professor, Philosophy Department University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA and RSSS Visiting Fellow, Philosophy Program, Australian National University, AustraliaJOHN COLLINS is Lecturer, School of l#�