Michael P. Lynch, editor. 2001 The MIT Press. is provided in screen-viewable form for personal use only by members of MIT CogNet. Unauthorized use or dissemination of this information is expressly forbidden. If you have any questions about this material, please contact cognetadmin@cognet.mit.edu. Acknowledgments Realism and the Correspondence Theory Bertrand Russell. ``Truth and Falsehood.'' Chapter 12 of The Problems of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1912. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. J. L. Austin. ``Truth.'' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, suppl. vol. 24. Reprinted by courtesy of the editor of the Aristotelian Society. Copyright 1950. Coherence Theories Brand Blanshard. ``Coherence as the Nature of Truth.'' From The Nature of Thought, vol. 2, pp. 260279. 1939. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Ralph C. S. Walker. ``The Coherence Theory.'' From The Coherence Theory of Truth, pp. 16 and 2540. Copyright 1989 by Routledge Press. Reprinted with the permission of Taylor and Francis Books. Sec- tion III contains new material added by the author. Pragmatism and Vericationism Charles Sanders Peirce. ``How to Make Our Ideas Clear.'' Popular Science Monthly 12 (1878): 286302. William James. ``Pragmatism's Conception of Truth.'' From Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, pp. 197236. New York: Longmans, 1907. Michael Dummett. ``Truth.'' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 59. Copyright 19581959. Reprinted by courtesy of the editor of the Aris- totelian Society. Hilary Putnam. ``Two Philosophical Perspectives.'' From Reason, Truth, and History, pp. 4956. Copyright 1981 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. Richard Rorty. ``Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright.'' Philosophical Quarterly 45 (1995): 281300. Copy- right 1995 by the editors of The Philosophy Quarterly. Reprinted with permission. Phenomenological and Postmodernist Conceptions Martin Heidegger. ``On the Essence of Truth.'' From Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger. English translation copyright 1977 by Harper and Row Publishers. General Introduction and the introductions to each part copyright by D. F. Krell. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Michel Foucault. ``Truth and Power.'' From Power/Knowledge, pp. 131 133. Copyright 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977 by Michel Foucault. Power/ Knowledge copyright 1980 by the Harvester Press. Reprinted by per- mission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House. Tarski's Theory and Its Importance Alfred Tarski. ``The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics.'' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4 (1944). Copyright 1992 by the Estate of Alfred Tarski. Reprinted by permission of Jan Tarski. Hartry Field. ``Tarski's Theory of Truth.'' Journal of Philosophy 69, no. 13: 347375. Reprinted with the permission of the author and The Journal of Philosophy. Scott Soames. ``What Is a Theory of Truth?'' Journal of Philosophy 81, no. 8: 411429. Reprinted with the permission of the author and The Journal of Philosophy. xiv Acknowledgments Deationary Views and Their Critics Frank Plumpton Ramsey. ``The Nature of Truth.'' Episteme 16: 616. Copyright 1990. Reprinted by permission of Kluwer Academic Publishers. P. F. Strawson. ``Truth.'' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, suppl. vol. 24. Copyright 1950. Reprinted by courtesy of the editor of the Aristotelian Society. W. V. O. Quine. ``Truth.'' From The Pursuit of Truth, pp. 7788. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Copyright 1990, 1992, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher. Hartry Field. ``Correspondence Truth, Disquotational Truth, and Deationism.'' Excerpted from ``The Deationary Conception of Truth,'' in Fact, Science, and Morality: Essays on A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth, and Logic, edited by G. Macdonald and C. Wright. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. Reprinted, with changes by the author, with permission of the author and the publisher. Anil Gupta. ``A Critique of Deationism.'' Philosophical Topics 21 (1993), no. 2: 5781. Reprinted by permission of the author and the editor of Philosophical Topics. Michael Devitt. ``The Metaphysics of Truth.'' This essay is also appear- ing in What Is Truth? edited by Richard Schantz. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2000. It is printed here with the permission of Richard Schantz and the author. Primitivism, Identity Theory, and Alethic Pluralism Donald Davidson. ``The Folly of Trying to Dene Truth.'' Journal of Philosophy 93, no. 6: 263279. Copyright 1999 by Donald Davidson. Reprinted with permission of the author. Jennifer Hornsby. ``Truth: The Identity Theory.'' Reprinted with omis- sions from Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97. Copyright 1997. Reprinted by courtesy of the author and the editor of the Aristotelian Society. Acknowledgments xv Hilary Putnam. ``The Face of Cognition.'' Presented as part of the Dewey Lectures of 1994, ``Sense, Nonsense, and the Senses: An Inquiry into the Powers of the Human Mind,'' lecture 3: ``The Face of Cognition.'' Pub- lished in The Journal of Philosophy 91, no. 9: 488504 and 510517. Reprinted with permission of the author and The Journal of Philosophy. Note: In preparing previously published essays for this volume, I have engaged in minor editing. xvi Acknowledgments This excerpt from The Nature of Truth. Michael P. Lynch, editor. 2001 The MIT Press. is provided in screen-viewable form for personal use only by members of MIT CogNet. Unauthorized use or dissemination of this information is expressly forbidden. If you have any questions about this material, please contact cognetadmin@cognet.mit.edu.