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Deflationist accounts of truth are widely held in contemporary philosophy: they seek to show that truth is a dispensable concept with no metaphysical depth. However, logical paradoxes present problems for deflationists that their work has struggled to overcome. In this volume of fourteen original essays, a distinguished team of contributors explore the extent to which, if at all, deflationism can accommodate paradox. The volume will be of interest to philosophers of logic, philosophers of language, and anyone working on truth. Contributors include Bradley Armour-Garb, Jody Azzouni, JC Beall, Hartry Field, Christopher Gauker, Michael Glanzberg, Dorothy Grover, Anil Gupta, Volker Halbach, Leon Horsten, Paul Horwich, Graham Priest, Greg Restall, and Alan Weir

Paradox. --- Truth --- Deflationary theory. --- Paradox --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Figures of speech --- Logic --- Contradiction --- Deflationary theory --- Truth - Deflationary theory.

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Although philosophers have been concerned with truth since at least the age of Plato, the last thirty years have witnessed a veritable explosion of the philosophical debate on this topic. The touchpaper which lit the fuse for this was undoubtedly the Deflationist Renaissance (half a century after the seminal work of F.P. Ramsey) due, in the Seventies, both to the Quinean disquotational interpretation of the Tarskian truth definitions and to the development of the prosentential theory of truth.

Truth --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Deflationary theory. --- Philosophy.

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Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge --- Reality. --- Truth --- Deflationary theory. --- Reality --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Philosophy --- Nominalism --- Pluralism --- Pragmatism --- Deflationary theory

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This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, Burgess and Burgess cover a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth-value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from Alfred Tarski to Saul Kripke and beyond. The book provides a rich picture of contemporary philosophical theorizing about truth, one that will be essential reading for philosophy students as well as philosophers specializing in other areas.

Truth. --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Alfred Tarski. --- Aristotle. --- Davidsonianism. --- Dummettianism. --- Frank P. Ramsey. --- Saul Kripke. --- W. V. Quine. --- antirealism. --- axiomatic theories. --- communication. --- contextualist solutions. --- correspondence theories. --- defeatism. --- deflationism. --- denial strategy. --- deviance strategy. --- direct definition. --- dis"ationalism. --- disqualification strategy. --- doublespeak strategy. --- equivalence principle. --- formal language. --- holism. --- inconsistency theories. --- indeterminacy. --- inflationism. --- logical solutions. --- mathematics. --- meaning. --- metalanguage. --- minimum fixed point. --- model theory. --- normativity. --- object language. --- paraconsistency. --- paradoxes. --- physicalism. --- pluralism. --- presupposition. --- realism. --- redundancy theory. --- reference. --- relativism. --- relativity. --- revenge. --- revision theories. --- self-reference. --- semantic truth. --- sentences. --- slogans. --- transfinite construction. --- truth predicate. --- truth-conditional semantics. --- truth. --- truthmaker theories. --- ungroundedness. --- utility. --- vagueness. --- value. --- verification-conditional semantics.