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Truth: A Contemporary Reader

Truth: A Contemporary Reader

Edwards, Douglas

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1474213294
ISBN13: 9781474213295
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 5 2019
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.93
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic: the nature of truth and the value of truth.

Featuring 22 essays, this up-to-date reader includes seminal work by leading figures in contemporary analytic philosophy. It charts the development of the central 'grand proposals' about the nature of truth, and subsequently how their influence gradually diminished in face of new theories developed in the 20th and 21st-centuries. The reader also demonstrates how truth is often taken to be valuable in various ways, in particular as the norm of correctness for belief and assertion, and the relationship between truth and other epistemic values.

With introductory overviews to each group of related papers complemented by guides to further reading, this reader introduces the central debates, familiarizes students with the most important work in the field and covers pivotal theories of truth including:

- correspondence theories

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