New Waves in Truth - New Waves in Philosophy - Cory D Wright - Books - Palgrave Macmillan - 9780230580701 - July 16, 2010
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New Waves in Truth - New Waves in Philosophy

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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.


Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Available in paper. Table of Contents: Series Editors' PrefaceNotes on the EditorsList of ContributorsPART I: DEFLATIONISM AND BEYONDTruth 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, PREDICATIONCompendious Assertion and Natural Language (Generalized) Quantification: A Problem for Deflationary Truth; "J. Collins"Explicit Truth Ascriptions; "C. Horisk"PART III: TRUTH VALUESDeflationism and Gaps; "P. Greenough"Falsity; "K. Scharp"PART IV: THE VALUE OF TRUTHMetarepresentation 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 CORRESPONDENCEThe Makings of Truth: Realism, Response-dependence, and Relativism; "D. Lopez 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 DISCOURSETruth 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"Index"Biographical Note: NIKOLAJ J. L. L. PEDERSEN is currently a Research Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles, USAand the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen and the Arche Research Centre at the University of St. Andrews, UK. CORY D. WRIGHT is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University Long Beach, USA. Previously, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Universiteit Utrecht, a James S. McDonnell post-doctoral fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University St. Louis, and a visiting fellow at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Universiteit van Tilburg."

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Released July 16, 2010
ISBN13 9780230580701
Publishers Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 319
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 17 mm   ·   517 g
Editor Pedersen, N.
Editor Wright, C.

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