1st Edition

Modes of Truth The Unified Approach to Truth, Modality, and Paradox

Edited By Carlo Nicolai, Johannes Stern Copyright 2021
304 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The aim of this volume is to open up new perspectives and to raise new research questions about a unified approach to truth, modalities, and propositional attitudes. The volume’s essays are grouped thematically around different research questions. The first theme concerns the tension between the theoretical role of the truth predicate in semantics and its expressive function in language. The... Read more

1. A Guide to the Unified Approach to Truth, Modality, and Paradox

Carlo Nicolai and Johannes Stern

2. Half-Truths and the Liar

Paul Égré

3. Is Deflationism Compatible with Compositional and Tarskian Truth Theories

Lavinia Picollo and Thomas Schindler

4. Truth, Reflection, and Commitment

Leon Horsten and Matteo Zicchetti

5. The Expressive Power of Contextualist Truth

Julien Murzi and Lorenzo Rossi

6. Disquotationalism and the Compositional Principles

Richard Kimberly Heck

7. Belief, Truth, and Ways of Believing

Johannes Stern

8. Indeterminate Truth and Credences

Catrin Campbell-Moore

9. The Fourth Grade of Modal Involvement

Volker Halbach

10. Opacity and Paradox

Andrew Bacon

11. Infinite Types and the Principle of Union

James P. Studd

Biography

Carlo Nicolai is Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London, UK. He was previously a VENI (NOW) Research Fellow at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Johannes Stern is Research Fellow and permanent member of staff at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bristol, UK. He directs the ERC Starting Grant Truth and Semantics.