New Waves in Truth

What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving the concept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twent

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Titles include: Otavio Bueno and Øystein Linnebo (editors) NEW WAVES IN PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS Boudewijn DeBruin and Christopher F. Zurn (editors) NEW WAVES IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Allan Hazlett (editor) NEW WAVES IN METAPHYSICS Vincent F. Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard (editors) NEW WAVES IN EPISTEMOLOGY Yujin Nagasawa and Erik J. Wielenberg (editors) NEW WAVES IN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Evan Selinger and Søren Riis (editors) NEW WAVES IN PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY P. D. Magnus and Jacob Busch (editors) NEW WAVES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Thomas S. Petersen, Jesper Ryberg and Clark Wolf (editors) NEW WAVES IN APPLIED ETHICS Sarah Sawyer (editor) NEW WAVES IN PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Kathleen Stock and Katherine Thomson-Jones (editors) NEW WAVES IN AESTHETICS Cory D. Wright and Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen (editors) NEW WAVES IN TRUTH Forthcoming: Jesús Aguilar, Andrei A. Buckareff and Keith Frankish (editors) NEW WAVES IN PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION Thom Brooks (editor) NEW WAVES IN ETHICS

Future Volumes: New Waves in Philosophy of Mind New Waves in Meta-Ethics New Waves in Formal Philosophy New Waves in Philosophy of Law

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New Waves in Truth Edited by

Cory D. Wright California State University Long Beach, USA

Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen Københavns Universitet, Denmark and University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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