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 thorniest set of topics.Included are                  discussions of the correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, semantic, performative,                  redundancy, appraisal, and truth-as-justification theories. There are also chapters                  or sections of chapters on the liar paradox, three-valued logic, Field's critique of                  Tarski, Davidson's program, Dummett's theory of linguistic competence, satisfaction,                  recursion, the extension/intension distinction, and an explanation of how theories                  of justification, properly understood, differ from theories of truth.A persistent                  theme is that philosophers have too often failed to recognize that not all theories                  of truth are intended to answer the same question. When the various questions are                  made distinct, it is apparent that many of the "debates" in this field are really                  cases of philosophers talking past one another. There is much less disagreement                  within the field than has commonly been thought.Richard L. Kirkham is Visiting                  Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma.

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