Abstract

“‘What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer,” writes Francis Bacon, in his “On Truth.” The Pilatean question stands in the title of this collection of twenty original papers, a time-honored question that today is again a focal point of philosophical discussion. The aim of the editor, Richard Schantz, who teaches at the University of Siegen, is to provide an assessment of five competing answers: truth is correspondence, truth is coherence, truth is pragmatical utility, truth is a primitive unanalyzable property, and truth is disquotation.