Truth

When someone sincerely agrees with an assertion, they are claiming that it is the truth. Epistemology, the study of knowledge, seeks solutions for the many philosophical problems associated with truth.

References

• Blackburn, S and Simmons K. 1999. Truth. Oxford University Press. A good anthology of classic articles, including papers by James, Russell, Ramsey, Tarski and more recent work.
• Field, H. 2001. Truth and the Absence of Fact, Oxford.
• Grover, Dorothy. 1992. The Prosentential Theory of Truth, Princeton University Press.
• Habermas, Jürgen. 2003. Truth and Justification. MIT Press.
• Horwich, P. Truth. Oxford.
• Kirkham, Richard 1992: Theories of Truth. Bradford Books. A very good reference book.
• Kripke, Saul 1975: "An Outline of a Theory of Truth" Journal of Philosophy 72:690-716.
• Nietzsche, Friedrich. "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
• Rescher, Nicholas, The Coherence Theory of Truth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973). ISBN 0198244010.
• http://www.ditext.com/tarski/tarski.html Tarski's classic 1944 paper on the Semantic Conception of Truth online.
• Williams, Bernard, Truth and Truthfulness (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004) ISBN 0691117918.