Truth: A Primer

Westview Press (1995)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The concept of truth lies at the heart of philosophy; whether one approaches it from epistemology or metaphysics, from the philosophy of language or the philosophy of science or religion, one must come to terms with the nature of truth.In this brisk introduction, Frederick Schmitt covers all the most important historical and contemporary theories of truth. Along the way he also sheds considerable light on such closely related issues as realism and idealism, absolutism and relativism, and the nature of contemporary pragmatism.At a time when it is fashionable for scholars outside of philosophy to deny the possibility of truth, Schmitt’s lucid, technically accurate survey offers the easiest way to understand what is really at stake in such denials. Truth: A Primer is a quick but accurate and philosophically sophisticated overview that will prove invaluable to philosophers and their students in a wide range of courses, in particular epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 98,418

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Frederick F. Schmitt, Truth: A Primer Reviewed by.Cheryl Misak - 1995 - Philosophy in Review 15 (3):209-211.
Truth: A Primer.Marian David & Frederick F. Schmitt - 1997 - Philosophical Review 106 (3):441.
Review of Truth: A Primer. [REVIEW]R. Barnard - 1998 - Social Epistemology 12:310-312.
Truth.Alexis G. Burgess & John P. Burgess - 2011 - Princeton University Press.
The Primitivist Theory of Truth.Jamin Asay - 2013 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Truth and Theories of Truth.Panu Raatikainen - 2021 - In Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pp. 217–232..

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
25 (#742,660)

6 months
5 (#929,326)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Frederick Schmitt
Indiana University, Bloomington

Citations of this work

The correspondence theory of truth.Marian David - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Truth and Theories of Truth.Panu Raatikainen - 2021 - In Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pp. 217–232..
What the deflationist may say about truthmaking.Matthew Mcgrath - 2003 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (3):666–688.
Inexpressible properties and propositions.Thomas Hofweber - 2008 - In Dean W. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Oxford University Press. pp. 155-206.

View all 20 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references