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  1. Theories of Truth: A Critical Introduction.Richard L. Kirkham - 1992 - Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's systematic treatment and meticulous explanations of terminology ensure that readers will come away from this book with a comprehensive general understanding of one of philosophy's (...)
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  2. On paradoxes and a surprise exam.Richard L. Kirkham - 1991 - Philosophia 21 (1-2):31-51.
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    Tarski's physicalism.Richard L. Kirkham - 1993 - Erkenntnis 38 (3):289-302.
    Hartry Field has argued that Alfred Tarski desired to reduce all semantic concepts to concepts acceptable to physicalism and that Tarski failed to do this. In the two succeeding decades, Field has been charged with being too lenient with Tarski; but it has been almost universally accepted that an objection at least as strong as Field's is telling against Tarski's theory. Close examination of the relevant literature, most of it printed in this journal in the 1930s, reveals that Field's conception (...)
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    The two paradoxes of the unexpected examination.Richard L. Kirkham - 1986 - Philosophical Studies 49 (1):19 - 26.
    After explaining the philosophical significance of the paradox and explaining what an adequate dissolution must do, i show that the story of the unexpected exam hides within it two distinctly different paradoxes. the first turns on a problem of self-reference, but all previous attempts to dissolve the paradox fail to dissolve the second. i then dissolve it.
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  5. What Dummett says about truth and linguistic competence.Richard L. Kirkham - 1989 - Mind 98 (390):207-224.
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    Focusing on Truth. [REVIEW]Richard L. Kirkham - 1994 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (3):728-731.
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