Truth and Truth-Making - Softcover

Lowe, E.J.; Rami, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773535551 ISBN 13: 9780773535558

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Truth depends in some sense on reality, but it is difficult to spell out this intuition in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making the intuition implies that either every truth or every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entity whose existence accounts for truth. This book provides several ways of assessing the correctness of this controversial claim. It presents a detailed introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making entities, and the scope of a truth-maker theory. The essays include the most important articles on truth-making in the last three decades as well as new work by leading researchers in the field of the theory of truth and of truth-making.

Contributors include Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons, Barry Smith, Greg Restall, David Lewis, David Armstrong, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Josh Parsons, Herbert Hochberg, Marian David, and Paul Horwich.

About this title

About the Author

E. J. Lowe is professor of philosophy at the University of Durham. A. Rami is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Göttingen.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773535551
• ISBN 13: 9780773535558
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256