The Oxford Handbook of Truth

Cover......Page 1
The Oxford Handbook of Truth......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Part I Ancient and Modern Theories of Truth......Page 20
1. Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood......Page 22
2. Truth in the Middle Ages......Page 63
3. Early Modern Theories of Truth......Page 88
4. Idealism and the Question of Truth......Page 106
Part II Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy......Page 136
5. Truth in British Idealism and its Analytic Critics......Page 138
6. Judgments, Facts, and Propositions: Theories of Truth in Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey......Page 163
7. Truth in Frege......Page 206
Part III The Classical Theories of Truth......Page 230
8. The Coherence Theory of Truth......Page 232
9. The Correspondence Theory of Truth......Page 251
10. The Identity Theory of Truth......Page 272
11. The Pragmatist Theory of Truth......Page 296
Part IV Truth in Metaphysics......Page 318
12. Propositions and Truth-​Bearers......Page 320
13. Truthmakers......Page 346
14. A Logical Theory of Truth-​Makers and Falsity-​Makers......Page 368
15. Bivalence and Determinacy......Page 407
16. Truth, Objectivity, and Realism......Page 446
17. Deflationist Truth......Page 490
18. Truth in Fictionalism......Page 516
19. Relative Truth......Page 530
20. Truth Pluralism......Page 556
Part V Other Applications......Page 590
21. Moral Truth......Page 592
22. Truth and the Sciences......Page 615
23. Truth and Truthlikeness......Page 638
24. Truth in Mathematics......Page 661
Part VI Formal Theories and Paradox......Page 680
25. Semantic Paradoxes: A Psychohistory of Self-​Defeat......Page 682
26. Tarski on the Concept of Truth......Page 708
27. The Axiomatic Approach to Truth......Page 731
28. Non-​Classical Theories of Truth......Page 752
29. Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox......Page 768
Index......Page 800