Truth Facts

Chapter 9 claimed that a way to preserve ideas about truth-making is to think of truth differently for different sorts of claims. However, what, exactly is the connection between t...

Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this ...

Truth commissions are temporary institutions that are tasked with investigating patterns of political violence under a prior regime as part of a process of political change. In the...

Abstract There is a deeply entrenched assumption that reality has the structure of a single stack of facts, and that a total view of the facts is either a view fr...

Abstract The purpose of this book is to bring nihilism into debates over truth and paradox, and show that a nihilist approach to truth is a serious contender. In the...

This is a book on metaethics and moral epistemology. It asks two fundamental questions: (i) Is there any such thing as (non-relative) moral truth?; and (ii) If there is such truth,...

This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around “post-truth” have been explored in the world of theater and performance. This ranges from the plays of Ca...

We explicate the different ways that a first-order sentence can be true (resp., false) in a model M, as formal objects, called (M-relative) truth-makers (resp., falsity-makers). M-...