Truth: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
The British idealists’ view of truth is best summarized in H.H. Joachim, The Nature of Truth (1906, reprinted 1969). Charles S. Peirce, “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” (1878), in Max Harold Fisch and Christian J.W. Kloesel (eds.), Writings of Charles S. Peirce, vol. 3 (1982), is a lucid presentation of his theory. Skepticism about truth is prominent in Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), and in Rorty’s later works. Tarski’s theory is best encountered in Alfred Tarski, “The Semantic Conception of Truth,” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 4:3 (1944), pp. 341–376. It became influential with the publication of W.V. Quine, Philosophy of Logic (1970). Paul Horwich, Truth, 2nd ed. (1998), is a spirited defense of deflationism. Anthologies of writings on truth include Simon Blackburn and Keith Simmons (eds.), Truth (1999). More general reflections on postmodernist skepticism about truth can be found in Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (2002); and Simon Blackburn, Truth: A Guide (2005).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Article title updated for style. | Nov 04, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Truth. | Oct 06, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 19, 2020 | ||
| New article added. | Apr 20, 2009 |