Truth and Truthmakers

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by D. M. Armstrong,

Edited by Ernest Sosa and Jonathan Dancy

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published July 2004, 170 pages, paper

ISBN 0521547237

New in paper (F04)

Truths are determined not by what we believe, but by the way the world is. Or so realists about truth believe. Philosophers call such theories correspondence theories of truth. Truthmaking theory, which now has many adherents among contemporary philosophers, is the most recent development of a realist theory of truth, and in this book D. M. Armstrong offers a study of this theory. He examines its applications to different sorts of truth, including contingent truths, modal truths, truths about the past and the future, and mathematical truths. He makes a compelling case for truthmaking and its importance in philosophy. 1 table

 Contents

1. An introduction to truthmakers
2. The general theory of truthmaking
3. Epistemology and methodology
4. Properties, relations and states of affairs
5. Negative truths
6. General truths
7. Truthmakers for modal truths: Part 1, possibility
8. Truthmakers for modal truths: Part 2, necessity
9. Numbers and classes
10. Causes, laws and dispositions
11. Time.