Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate

by Helen Beebee, Julian Dodd

Overview

The concept of truthmaking is attracting much attention in contemporary metaphysics. Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd have assembled a distinguished team to contribute brand new essays on the topic: they ask, among other things, how the truthmaker principle should be formulated, whether it is well motivated, whether it genuinely has the explanatory roles claimed for it, and whether more modest principles might serve just as well. This volume will be the starting point for future discussion and research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199283569
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/20/2005
Series:	Mind Association Occasional Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	9.52(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

University of Manchester

University of Manchester

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd2. Why Truthmakers?, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra3. Truthmaking Without Truthmaker Entities, Jennifer Hornsby4. Realism Beyond Correspondence, Michael Morris5. Truthmaking Without Truthmakers, Joseph Melia6. So Where's The Explanation?, Chris Daly7. Truthmakers and Explanation, David Liggins8. Lewis's Animadversions on the Truthmakers Principle, Fraser MacBride9. Armstrong on Truthmaking, Marian David10. Truthmakers, the Past, and the Future, Josh Parsons

Editorial Reviews

"...any philosopher interested in the nature of truth would do well to read the papers collected here." — Notre Dame Philosophical Review

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