"What is truth?" has long been the philosophical
question par excellence. The Nature of Truth collects in
one volume the twentieth century's most influential
philosophical work on the subject. The coverage strikes
a balance between classic works and the leading edge of
current philosophical research. The essays center around
two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature? And
if so, what sort of nature does it have? Thus the book
discusses both traditional and deflationary theories of
truth, as well as phenomenological, postmodern, and
pluralist approaches to the problem. The essays are
organized by theory. Each of the seven sections opens
with a detailed introduction that not only discusses the
essays in that section but relates them to other
relevant essays in the book. Eleven of the essays are
previously unpublished or substantially revised. The
book also includes suggestions for further reading.
Contributors: Linda Martin Alcoff, William P. Alston,
J.L. Austin, Brand Blanshard, Marian David, Donald
Davidson, Michael Devitt, Michael Dummett, Hartry Field,
Michel Foucault, Dorothy Grover, Anil Gupta, Martin
Heidegger, Terence Horgan, Jennifer Hornsby, Paul
Horwich, William James, Michael P. Lynch, Charles
Sanders Pierce, Hilary Putnam, W.V.O. Quine, F.P.
Ramsey, Richard Rorty, Bertrand Russell, Scott Soames,
Ernest Sosa, P.F. Strawson, Alfred Tarski, Ralph C.
Walker, Crispin Wright.
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