The nature of truth : classic and contemporary perspectives /
edited by Michael P. Lynch.
- xvi, 802 pages ; 23 cm
"A Bradford book.".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mystery of Truth -- Realism and the Correspondence Theory -- Truth and Falsehood -- Truth -- A Realist Conception of Truth -- Contextual Semantics and Metaphysical Realism: Truth as Indirect Correspondence -- Coherence Theories -- Coherence as the Nature of Truth -- The Coherence Theory -- The Case for Coherence -- Pragmatism and Verificatonism -- How to Make Our Ideas Clear -- Pragmatism's Conception of Truth -- Truth -- Two Philosophical Perspectives -- Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright -- Phenomenological and Postmodernist Conceptions -- On the Essence of Truth -- Truth and Power -- Tarski's Theory and Its Importance -- The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics -- Tarski's Theory of Truth -- What Is a Theory of Truth? -- Deflationary Views and Their Critics -- The Nature of Truth -- Truth -- Truth -- Correspondence Truth, Disquotational Truth, and Deflationism -- The Prosentential Theory: Further Reflections on Locating Our Interest in Truth -- A Critique of Deflationism -- A Defense of Minimalism -- The Metaphysics of Truth -- Primitivism, Identity Theory, and Alethic Pluralism -- The Folly of Trying to Define Truth -- Epistemology and Primitive Truth -- Truth: The Identity Theory -- Truth as Identity and Truth as Correspondence -- The Face of Cognition -- A Functionalist Theory of Truth -- Minimalism, Deflationism, Pragmatism, Pluralism -- Contributors -- Index. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. II. 5. 6. 7. III. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. IV. 13. 14. V. 15. 16. 17. VI. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. VII. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.