Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this
book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present the recent arguments for and against …

Pragmatic theories of truth are usually associated either with CS Peirce's proposal that true
beliefs will be accepted “at the end of inquiry” or with William James' proposal that truth be …

The plausibility of theories of truth has often been observed to vary, sometimes extensively,
across different domains or regions of discourse. Because of this variance, the problems …

The focus of this article is the notion of alethic rights, the rights related to truth. The concept
of truth grounds many norms and customary and official rules, but there is no clear and …

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy are state-of-the-art surveys of emerging, newly
refreshed, and important fields in philosophy, providing accessible yet thorough …

In this paper, we propose and justify the cross‐linguistic study of the concept of truth through
empirical studies of truth predicates, with results of such studies. We first conceptually …

The article explores the most common disagreements and misunderstandings concerning
truth, in philosophical as well as extra-philosophical debates, then reflects on the notion of …

Truth is a fundamental philosophical concept that, despite its common and everyday use,
has resisted common-sense formulations. At this point, one may legitimately wonder if there …

Compared to the extensive amount of literature on various themes of WVO Quine's
philosophy, his immanent concept of truth remains a relatively unexplored topic. This relative …

This chapter presents two cross-linguistic studies of knowledge-how attributions that
compare English and Japanese speakers. The first study investigates the felicity judgements …