1st Edition
From Truth to Reality New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics
Part I: Truth
"'Unsettledness' in Bivalent Language: A Modest, Nonepistemic Idea"
JC Beall
"Vagueness and Truth"
Mark Colyvan
Part II: Reality
"Biological Realism"
Michael Devitt
"Pleonastic Platonism"
Alan Musgrave
"Anomalous Monism"
John Heil
"On the Metaphysical Implications of Some Epistemological Commonplaces"
Frank Jackson
"Mathematical Platonism"
J. J. C. Smart
Part III: Truth and Reality
"On Creeping Minimalism and the Nature of Minimal Entities"
Luca Moretti
"Hempel's Dilemma"
Daniel Stoljar
"From Reality to Truth: The Case of Electrons and Electron Theory"
Robert Nola
"Reflections on the Gem"
Fred Kroon
"On the Sortal Dependency of Individuation Thesis"
Paul Snowdon
"Truthmakers for What?"
D. H. Mellor
Biography
Heather Dyke
'From Truth to Reality features 14 new essays by philosophers who are proposing important new departures in some controversial issues of philosophical logic, theory of truth, and metaphysics ... The collection is challenging yet accessible to readers with sound background in metaphysics. Its unified reference list at the end is a plus. This work will be indispensable to anyone working in current analytic metaphysics, epistemology, and to some extent, philosophy of science. Summing Up: Essential.' – CHOICE July 2009
