Metaphysics and Truthmakers
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Metaphysics and Truthmakers

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Metaphysics and Truthmakers

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The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian substances, states of affairs, meanings or essences? ). Taking as their starting point a famous seminal paper by K. Mulligan, P. Simons and B. Smith, as well as D. Armstrong's outstanding contribution to the subject, they offer a fresh assay of the main concepts involved, in order to assess the explanatory value of truthmakers and truthmaker necessitarianism, and explore such delicate issues as contingent truth, bare possibility, tensed propositions, the ontological irreducibility of relations, the subsistence of facts and the epistemic role of negative truths. The collection as a whole provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking survey of the current debate about truthmaking theory and deserves to be read carefully by anyone interested in the relationship between language, thought and reality. With contributions from David ARMSTRONG, Stefano CAPUTO, François CLEMENTZ, Pascal ENGEL, Herbert HOCHBERG, Philipp KELLER, Jonathan LOWE, Jean-Maurice MONNOYER, Kevin MULLIGAN, Stephen MUMFORD, Frederic NEF, Peter SIMONS, Barry SMITH, Jonathan SIMON

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
ISBN
9783110326918
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Vingt ans après
  3. Truth-Makers*KEVIN MULLIGAN
  4. Two Dogmas of TruthmakingKEVIN MULLIGAN
  5. Truth in virtue of meaningPETER SIMONS
  6. Truthmaker ExplanationsBARRY SMITH
  7. Truthmakers for negative truths,and for truths of mere possibilityD.M. ARMSTRONG
  8. A World of TruthmakersPHILIPP KELLER
  9. Reply to KellerD.M. ARMSTRONG
  10. Relational TruthmakersFRANÇOIS CLEMENTZ
  11. ‘Is True’ and ‘Makes-True’:Two Predicates Without PropertiesHERBERT HOCHBERG
  12. Senex erit puerTruthmakers for tensed sentencesFRÉDÉRIC NEF
  13. Truthmaking as Essential DependenceE. J. LOWE
  14. Identity MakersPASCAL ENGEL
  15. Truth-making :What it is not and What it Could beSTEFANO CAPUTO
  16. A New Solution to the Problem of NegativeTruthSTEPHEN MUMFORD
  17. The Price of Positivity : Mumford andNegativesPETER SIMONS