The Metaphysics of Truth
ISBN: 9780198758693
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy Metaphysics/ Epistemology Philosophy of Language;

What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? The Metaphysics of Truth tackles these fundamental philosophical questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. In particular, Douglas Edwards makes the case for the idea that, in some domains, such as physics and chemistry, language responds to the world, whereas in others, such as the social and institutionaldomains, language generates the world. He shows how truth plays a key role in this story, and how what is true relates to what exists. He also responds to some influential trends that suggest thatthere is no point to investigating the nature of truth, and shows how studying the nature of truth remains a topic of paramount importance in contemporary philosophy.

Douglas Edwards works primarily on issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. He has published numerous articles in leading philosophy journals, including Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Philosophy, and Synthese. He is the author of Properties (Polity Press, 2014), and the editor of Truth: A Contemporary Reader (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). He received his PhD from the University of St Andrews,and has since held positions at University College Dublin, the University of Aberdeen, Hamilton College, and Utica College, where he currently works.

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