The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives
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These essays center around two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature? And if so, what sort of nature does it have?
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Mystery of Truth1IRealism and the Correspondence Theory71Truth and Falsehood172Truth253A Realist Conception of Truth414Contextual Semantics and Metaphysical Realism: Truth as Indirect Correspondence67IICoherence Theories975Coherence as the Nature of Truth1036The Coherence Theory1237The Case for Coherence159IIIPragmatism and Verificatonism1838How to Make Our Ideas Clear1939Pragmatism's Conception of Truth21110Truth22911Two Philosophical Perspectives25112Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright259IVPhenomenological and Postmodernist Conceptions28713On the Essence of Truth29514Truth and Power317VTarski's Theory and Its Importance32115The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics33116Tarski's Theory of Truth36517What Is a Theory of Truth?397VIDeflationary Views and Their Critics41918The Nature of Truth43319Truth44720Truth47321Correspondence Truth, Disquotational Truth, and Deflationism48322The Prosentential Theory: Further Reflections on Locating Our Interest in Truth50523A Critique of Deflationism52724A Defense of Minimalism55925The Metaphysics of Truth579VIIPrimitivism, Identity Theory, and Alethic Pluralism61326The Folly of Trying to Define Truth62327Epistemology and Primitive Truth64128Truth: The Identity Theory66329Truth as Identity and Truth as Correspondence68330The Face of Cognition70531A Functionalist Theory of Truth72332Minimalism, Deflationism, Pragmatism, Pluralism751Contributors789Index793
