Truth by Wrenn, Chase -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Key Concepts in Philosophy Series Title page Copyright page Dedication Preface and Acknowledgments 1: What is Truth?

1.1 Truth and the Truth 1.2 Truth Bearers 1.3 Being True and Being Taken to be True 1.4 What Lies Ahead Further Reading

2: Objectivity

2.1 Three Pictures of Reality 2.2 Realism 2.3 Relativism 2.4 Anti-Realism 2.5 Objectivity and the Equivalence Principle Further Reading

3: Truth and Value

3.1 Is Truth Essentially a Kind of Goodness? 3.2 What Makes Truth Valuable? 3.3 Conclusion Further Reading

4: Epistemic Theories of Truth

4.1 Skepticism and What Our Tests Test 4.2 The Coherence Theory of Truth 4.3 Problems for Coherentism 4.4 Pragmatic Theories of Truth 4.5 Epistemic Theories and the Equivalence Principle 4.6 Epistemic Theories, Realism, and Anti-Realism 4.7 Epistemic Theories and the Value of Truth 4.8 Final Assessment of Epistemic Theories Further Reading

5: Correspondence Theories of Truth

5.1 The Idea that Truth Depends on the World 5.2 Classical Correspondence Theories 5.3 From Classical to Causal Correspondence 5.4 Problems for Causal Correspondence 5.5 Truthmakers 5.6 The Scope Problem 5.7 The Equivalence Principle, Realism, and the Value of Truth Further Reading

6: Deflationary Theories of Truth

6.1 A New Way to Think About Truth 6.2 The Redundancy Theory 6.3 Disquotationalism 6.4 Minimalism 6.5 Resolving the Explanatory and Evidentiary Problems 6.6 Deflationism, the Equivalence Principle, and Realism 6.7 Deflationism and the Value of Truth Further Reading

7: Pluralist Theories of Truth

7.1 Truth Monism and Truth Pluralism 7.2 The Scope Problem Again 7.3 Two Problems for Deflationism 7.4 Simple Pluralism and Wright's View 7.5 Simple Pluralism, Mixed Compounds, and Mixed Inferences 7.6 Alethic Functionalism 7.7 Objections to Pluralist Theories of Truth 7.8 Pluralism's Scorecard Further Reading

8: Deflationism Revisited

8.1 Advancing the Debates 8.2 Common Ground and Methodological Deflationism 8.3 Deflationism vs. the Causal Correspondence Theory 8.4 Deflationism vs. Pluralism 8.5 Conclusion

References Index