Truthmakers The Contemporary Debate [Hardcover]

The concept of truthmaking is attracting much attention in contemporary metaphysics. Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd have assembled a distinguished team to contribute brand new essays on the topic: they ask, among other things, how the truthmaker principle should be formulated, whether it is well motivated, whether it genuinely has the explanatory roles claimed for it, and whether more modest principles might serve just as well. This volume will be the starting point for future discussion and research.

1. Introduction,Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd
2. Why Truthmakers?,Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
3. Truthmaking Without Truthmaker Entities,Jennifer Hornsby
4. Realism Beyond Correspondence,Michael Morris
5. Truthmaking Without Truthmakers,Joseph Melia
6. So Where's The Explanation?,Chris Daly
7. Truthmakers and Explanation,David Liggins
8. Lewis's Animadversions on the Truthmakers Principle,Fraser MacBride
9. Armstrong on Truthmaking,Marian David
10. Truthmakers, the Past, and the Future,Josh Parsons

...any philosopher interested in the nature of truth would do well to read the papers collected here. --Notre Dame Philosophical Review