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Assertion, Lying and the Norm of Truth
In chapter four of Truth and Truthfulness Bernard Williams presents an account of assertion that relies heavily on the ‘psychological’ notions of...
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Transparency and the truth norm of belief
That it can explain the phenomenon of transparency, namely the fact that if you resolve whether p , you have thereby resolved whether to believe that p ...
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Truth and its uses: deflationism and alethic pluralism
Deflationists believe that the question “What is truth?” should be answered not by means of a metaphysical inquiry into the nature of truth, but by...
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The Practical Bearings of Truth as Correspondence
Pragmatists are usually very antagonistic toward the correspondence theory of truth. They contend that the evidence-transcendent standard entailed by...
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The Informativeness Norm of Assertion
Although assertions are often characterised as essentially informative speech acts, there is a widespread disagreement concerning how the...
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Truth and the way in Xúnzǐ
This essay argues that the third-century BC Ruist “masters” text Xúnzǐ presents a sophisticated approach to semantics and epistemology in which a...
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Cognitive Projects and the Trustworthiness of Positive Truth
The aim of this paper is twofold: first, I provide a cluster of theories of truth in classical logic that is (internally) consistent with global...
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Vice epistemology, norm-maintenance and epistemic evasiveness
Vice epistemology studies how character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles systematically get in the way of knowledge, while doxastic...
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Truth-myths of New Zealand
This article probes the gap between different cultural perspectives in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand, a nation-state founded on a bicultural...
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Right Reason Accounts of the Norm of Assertion
A growing number of philosophers are defending what can be understood as Right Reason Accounts of the norm of assertion. According to these accounts,...
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Arne Næss’s experiments in truth
Well over half a century before the development of contemporary experimental philosophy, the Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss conducted a number of...
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Looking across languages: Anglocentrism, cross-linguistic experimental philosophy, and the future of inquiry about truth
Analytic debates about truth are wide-ranging, but certain key themes tend to crop up time and again. The three themes that we will examine in this...
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Truth in interactive fiction
This paper provides an account of truth in interactive fiction. Interactive fiction allows the audience to make choices, resulting in many different...
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Agreeing on a Norm: What Sort of Speech Act?
What type of speech act is a norm of action, when the norm is agreed upon as the conclusion of an argumentative dialogue? My hypothesis is that,...
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Understanding of the norm of political discourse
It is argued that understanding is the norm of political discourse, and it is shown why political assertions can be epistemically problematic within...
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Diaphonic pluralism: from truth pluralism to disagreement pluralism
In this paper, I offer a pluralistic framework for disagreement and I develop a strategy to account for the varieties of disagreement on the basis of...
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The Problem of Truth in Quantum Mechanics
There is a large literature on the issue of the lack of properties (i.e. accidents) in quantum mechanics (the problem of “hidden variables”) and also...
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Metainferential Theories of Truth
A central feature of metainferential logics is that they can be expanded with a transparent truth predicate.
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Fallibilism and the Certainty Norm of Assertion
Among the main reactions to scepticism, fallibilism is certainly the most popular nowadays. However, fallibilism faces a very strong and well-known...