First published Tue Jun 13, 2006; substantive revision Thu Aug 16, 2018
Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth.
It would be impossible to survey all there is to say about truth in any coherent way. Instead, this essay will concentrate on the main themes in the study of truth in the contemporary philosophical literature. It will attempt to survey the key problems and theories of current interest, and show how they relate to one-another. A number of other entries investigate many of these topics in greater depth. Generally, discussion of the principal arguments is left to them. The goal of this essay is only to provide an overview of the current Theories. Many of the papers mentioned in this essay can be found in the anthologies edited by Blackburn and Simmons (1999) and Lynch (2001b). There are a number of book-length surveys of the topics discussed here, including Burgess and Burgess (2011), Kirkham (1992), and Künne (2003). Also, a number of the topics discussed here, and many further ones, are surveyed at more length in papers in Glanzberg (2018).
The problem of truth is in a way easy to state: what truths are, and what (if anything) makes them true. But this simple statement masks a great deal of controversy. Whether there is a metaphysical problem of truth at all, and if there is, what kind of theory might address it, are all standing issues in the theory of truth. We will see a number of distinct ways of answering these questions.
1. The neo-classical theories of truth
1.1 The correspondence theory
1.1.1 The origins of the correspondence theory
1.1.2 The neo-classical correspondence theory
1.2 The coherence theory
1.3 Pragmatist theories
2. Tarski’s theory of truth
2.1 Sentences as truth-bearers
2.2 Convention T
2.3 Recursive definition of truth
2.4 Reference and satisfaction
3. Correspondence revisited
3.1 Correspondence without facts
3.2 Representation and Correspondence
3.3 Facts again
3.4 Truthmakers
4. Realism and anti-realism
4.1 Realism and truth
4.2 Anti-realism and truth
4.3 Anti-realism and pragmatism
4.4 Truth pluralism
5. Deflationism
5.1 The redundancy theory
5.2 Minimalist theories
5.3 Other aspects of deflationism
6. Truth and language
6.1 Truth-bearers
6.2 Truth and truth conditions
6.3 Truth conditions and deflationism
6.4 Truth and the theory of meaning
6.5 The coherence theory and meaning
6.6 Truth and assertion
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1. The neo-classical theories of truth
Much of the contemporary literature on truth takes as its starting point some ideas which were prominent in the early part of the 20th century. There were a number of views of truth under discussion at that time, the most significant for the contemporary literature being the correspondence, coherence, and pragmatist theories of truth.
These theories all attempt to directly answer the nature question: what is the nature of truth? They take this question at face value: there are truths, and the question to be answered concerns their nature. In answering this question, each theory makes the notion of truth part of a more thoroughgoing metaphysics or epistemology. Explaining the nature of truth becomes an application of some metaphysical system, and truth inherits significant metaphysical presuppositions along the way.
The goal of this section is to characterize the ideas of the correspondence, coherence and pragmatist theories which animate the contemporary debate. In some cases, the received forms of these theories depart from the views that were actually defended in the early 20th century. We thus dub them the ‘neo-classical theories’. Where appropriate, we pause to indicate how the neo-classical theories emerge from their ‘classical’ roots in the early 20th century.
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First published Tue Jun 13, 2006; substantive revision Thu Aug 16, 2018
Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth.
It would be impossible to survey all there is to say about truth in any coherent way. Instead, this essay will concentrate on the main themes in the study of truth in the contemporary philosophical literature. It will attempt to survey the key problems and theories of current interest, and show how they relate to one-another. A number of other entries investigate many of these topics in greater depth. Generally, discussion of the principal arguments is left to them. The goal of this essay is only to provide an overview of the current Theories. Many of the papers mentioned in this essay can be found in the anthologies edited by Blackburn and Simmons (1999) and Lynch (2001b). There are a number of book-length surveys of the topics discussed here, including Burgess and Burgess (2011), Kirkham (1992), and Künne (2003). Also, a number of the topics discussed here, and many further ones, are surveyed at more length in papers in Glanzberg (2018).
The problem of truth is in a way easy to state: what truths are, and what (if anything) makes them true. But this simple statement masks a great deal of controversy. Whether there is a metaphysical problem of truth at all, and if there is, what kind of theory might address it, are all standing issues in the theory of truth. We will see a number of distinct ways of answering these questions.
1. The neo-classical theories of truth
1.1 The correspondence theory
1.1.1 The origins of the correspondence theory
1.1.2 The neo-classical correspondence theory
1.2 The coherence theory
1.3 Pragmatist theories
2. Tarski’s theory of truth
2.1 Sentences as truth-bearers
2.2 Convention T
2.3 Recursive definition of truth
2.4 Reference and satisfaction
3. Correspondence revisited
3.1 Correspondence without facts
3.2 Representation and Correspondence
3.3 Facts again
3.4 Truthmakers
4. Realism and anti-realism
4.1 Realism and truth
4.2 Anti-realism and truth
4.3 Anti-realism and pragmatism
4.4 Truth pluralism
5. Deflationism
5.1 The redundancy theory
5.2 Minimalist theories
5.3 Other aspects of deflationism
6. Truth and language
6.1 Truth-bearers
6.2 Truth and truth conditions
6.3 Truth conditions and deflationism
6.4 Truth and the theory of meaning
6.5 The coherence theory and meaning
6.6 Truth and assertion
Bibliography
Academic Tools
Other Internet Resources
Related Entries
1. The neo-classical theories of truth
Much of the contemporary literature on truth takes as its starting point some ideas which were prominent in the early part of the 20th century. There were a number of views of truth under discussion at that time, the most significant for the contemporary literature being the correspondence, coherence, and pragmatist theories of truth.
These theories all attempt to directly answer the nature question: what is the nature of truth? They take this question at face value: there are truths, and the question to be answered concerns their nature. In answering this question, each theory makes the notion of truth part of a more thoroughgoing metaphysics or epistemology. Explaining the nature of truth becomes an application of some metaphysical system, and truth inherits significant metaphysical presuppositions along the way.
The goal of this section is to characterize the ideas of the correspondence, coherence and pragmatist theories which animate the contemporary debate. In some cases, the received forms of these theories depart from the views that were actually defended in the early 20th century. We thus dub them the ‘neo-classical theories’. Where appropriate, we pause to indicate how the neo-classical theories emerge from their ‘classical’ roots in the early 20th century.
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