{"product_id":"the-nature-of-truth-second-edition-isbn-9780262542067","title":"The Nature of Truth, second edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive and essential collection of classic and new essays on analytic theories of truth, revised and updated, with seventeen new chapters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe question \"What is truth?\" is so philosophical that it can seem rhetorical. Yet truth matters, especially in a \"post-truth\" society in which lies are tolerated and facts are ignored. If we want to understand why truth matters, we first need to understand what it is. The Nature of Truth offers the definitive collection of classic and contemporary essays on analytic theories of truth. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated, incorporating both historically central readings on truth's nature as well as up-to-the-moment contemporary essays. Seventeen new chapters reflect the current trajectory of research on truth.Preface to the Second Edition: Truth in a Post-Truth Age ix \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xiii \u003cbr\u003eOriginal Sources xv \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Metaphysics of Truth 1 \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch \u003cbr\u003eI Correspondence Theories \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 9 \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch, Jeremy Wyatt, and Junyeol Kim \u003cbr\u003e1 Truth and Falsehood 17 \u003cbr\u003eBertrand Russell \u003cbr\u003e2 Truth 23 \u003cbr\u003eJ. L. Austin \u003cbr\u003e3 A Realist Conception of Truth 37 \u003cbr\u003eWilliam P. Alston \u003cbr\u003e4 On Truth 57 \u003cbr\u003eRuth Garrett Millikan \u003cbr\u003e5 In Search of a Substantive Theory of Truth 71 \u003cbr\u003eGila Sher \u003cbr\u003eII Coherence Theories Introduction 103 \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch, Jeremy Wyatt, and Junyeol Kim \u003cbr\u003e6 Coherence as the Nature of Truth 107 \u003cbr\u003eBrand Blanshard \u003cbr\u003e7 The Coherence Theory 121 \u003cbr\u003eRalph C. S. Walker\u003cbr\u003eIII Pragmatist and Verificationist Theories \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 151 \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch, Nathan Kellen, and Jeremy Wyatt \u003cbr\u003e8 How to Make Our Ideas Clear 159 \u003cbr\u003eCharles Sanders Peirce \u003cbr\u003e9 Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth 173 \u003cbr\u003eWilliam James \u003cbr\u003e10 Truth, Inquiry, and Experience: A Pragmatist Epistemology 187 \u003cbr\u003eCheryl Misak \u003cbr\u003e11 Truth 209 \u003cbr\u003eMichael Dummett \u003cbr\u003e12 Two Philosophical Perspectives 225 \u003cbr\u003eHilary Putnam \u003cbr\u003e13 Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright 231 \u003cbr\u003eRichard Rorty \u003cbr\u003eIV Tarski’s Theory and Its Importance \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 257 \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch, Nathan Kellen, and Jeremy Wyatt \u003cbr\u003e14 The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics 265 \u003cbr\u003eAlfred Tarski \u003cbr\u003e15 Tarski’s Theory of Truth 291 \u003cbr\u003eHartry Field \u003cbr\u003eV Deflationary Theories \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 319 \u003cbr\u003eJeremy Wyatt \u003cbr\u003e16 The Nature of Truth 335 \u003cbr\u003eFrank Plumpton Ramsey \u003cbr\u003e17 Truth 345\u003cbr\u003e P. F. Strawson \u003cbr\u003e18 Truth 359 \u003cbr\u003eW. V. O. Quine \u003cbr\u003e19 Transparent Truth as a Logical Property 367 \u003cbr\u003eJc Beall\u003cbr\u003e20 The Prosentential Theory: Further Reflections on Locating Our Interest in Truth 379 \u003cbr\u003eDorothy Grover \u003cbr\u003e21 A Defense of Minimalism 397 \u003cbr\u003ePaul Horwich \u003cbr\u003e22 A Substitutional Theory of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence 413 \u003cbr\u003eChristopher Hill \u003cbr\u003e23 Deflationism as Alethic Fictionalism via a SPIF Account of Truth-Talk 429 \u003cbr\u003eBradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge \u003cbr\u003e24 Truth and Insubstantiality: The Metaphysics of Deflationism 455 \u003cbr\u003eJeremy Wyatt \u003cbr\u003e25 The Use of Force against Deflationism: Assertion and Truth 475 \u003cbr\u003eDorit Bar-On and Keith Simmons \u003cbr\u003eVI Primitivist and Identity Theories Introduction 505 \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch, Jeremy Wyatt, and Junyeol Kim \u003cbr\u003e26 The Folly of Trying to Define Truth 511 \u003cbr\u003eDonald Davidson \u003cbr\u003e27 Primitivism about Truth 525 \u003cbr\u003eJamin Asay \u003cbr\u003e28 Truth: The Identity Theory 539 \u003cbr\u003eJennifer Hornsby \u003cbr\u003eVII Pluralist and Replacement Theories \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 557 \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch, Jeremy Wyatt, and Nathan Kellen \u003cbr\u003e29 Minimalism, Deflationism, Pragmatism, Pluralism 567 \u003cbr\u003eCrispin Wright \u003cbr\u003e30 Three Questions for Truth Pluralism 597 \u003cbr\u003eMichael P. Lynch \u003cbr\u003e31 Truth, Winning, and Simple Determination Pluralism 619 \u003cbr\u003eDouglas Edwards \u003cbr\u003e32 Austere Truth Pluralism 629 \u003cbr\u003eFilippo Ferrari, Sebastiano Moruzzi, and Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen \u003cbr\u003e33 Deflationism, Pluralism, Expressivism, Pragmatism 657 \u003cbr\u003eSimon Blackburn\u003cbr\u003e34 Conceptual Engineering and Replacements for Truth 671 \u003cbr\u003eKevin Scharp \u003cbr\u003e35 Keeping “True”: A Case Study in Conceptual Ethics 693 \u003cbr\u003eAlexis Burgess \u003cbr\u003eContributors 719 \u003cbr\u003eIndex 721Michael P. Lynch is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, where he directs the Humanities Institute. In 2019 he was awarded the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. Jeremy Wyatt is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. 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