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New Waves in Truth

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Editors:
  1. Cory D. Wright

    1. California State University Long Beach, USA

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  2. Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

    1. Københavns Universitet, Denmark and University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: New Waves in Philosophy (NWIP)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Truth: The New Wave

    1. Truth: The New Wave

      • Cory D. Wright, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen
      Pages 1-10

  3. Deflationism and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Truth as Conceptually Primitive

      • Douglas Patterson
      Pages 13-29

    3. Rejectionism about Truth

      • Matti Eklund
      Pages 30-44

    4. New Wave Deflationism

      • Nic Damnjanovic
      Pages 45-58

    5. Why Deflationists Should be Pretense Theorists (and Perhaps Already are)

      • Bradley Armour-Garb, James A. Woodbridge
      Pages 59-77

  4. Ascription, Attribution, Predication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Compendious Assertion and Natural Language (Generalized) Quantification: A Problem for Deflationary Truth

      • John Collins
      Pages 81-96

    3. Explicit Truth Ascriptions

      • Claire Horisk
      Pages 97-112

  5. Truth Values

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Deflationism and Truth Value Gaps

      • Patrick Greenough
      Pages 115-125

    3. Falsity

      • Kevin Scharp
      Pages 126-136

  6. The Value of Truth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Metarepresentation and the Cognitive Value of the Concept of Truth

      • Gurpreet Rattan
      Pages 139-156

    3. Truth, Autonomy, and the Plurality of Goods

      • Adam Kovach
      Pages 157-173

    4. True Belief Is Not Instrumentally Valuable

      • Chase B. Wrenn
      Pages 174-188

  7. Realism and Correspondence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. The Makings of Truth: Realism, Response-Dependence, and Relativism

      • Dan López de Sa
      Pages 191-204

    3. Truth, Pluralism, Monism, Correspondence

      • Cory D. Wright, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen
      Pages 205-217
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • California State University Long Beach, USA

    Cory D. Wright

  • Københavns Universitet, Denmark and University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

About the editors

BRADLEY ARMOUR-GARB is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, Albany, USA BERIT BROGAARD is Associate Professor, Philosophy Department University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA and RSSS Visiting Fellow, Philosophy Program, Australian National University, Australia JOHN COLLINS is Lecturer, School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, UK NIC DAMNJANOVIC is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Australia, Australia DALE DORSEY is Assistant Professor& Graduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, USA MATTI EKLUND is Associate Professor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, USA PATRICK GREENOUGH is Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews and Associate Fellow, Arché Research Centre, UK CLAIRE HORISK is Assistant Professor& Graduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA ADAM KOVACH is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marymount University, USA DAN LÓPEZ DE SA is ICREA Reseacher, LOGOS, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain and Associate Fellow, Arché Research Centre, UK PATRICIA MARINO is Associate Professor& Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada DOUGLAS PATTERSON is Associate Professor at Philosophy Department, Kansas State University, USA and Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig, Germany GURPREET RATTAN is Associate Professor,Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada GILLIAN RUSSELL is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, USA and Visiting Research Fellow, Tilburg Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands KEVIN SCHARP is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Marion, USA MARK SCHROEDER is Associate Professor& Graduate Director, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern California, USA CHASE B. WRENN is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama, USA JAMES A. WOODBRIDGE is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Waves in Truth

  • Editors: Cory D. Wright, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

  • Series Title: New Waves in Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230296992

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-58070-1Published: 16 July 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22998-3Published: 16 July 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29699-2Published: 16 July 2010

  • Series ISSN: 2947-6720

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-6739

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 319

  • Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics

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