Truthmaking by Jamin Asay
Truthmaking is the metaphysical exploration of the idea that what is true depends upon what exists. Truthmaker theorists argue about what the truthmaking relation involves, which truths require truthmakers, and what those truthmakers are. This Element covers the dominant views on these core issues in truthmaking. It also explores some key metaphysical topics and debates that are usefully approached by employing the tools of truthmaker theory: the debate between presentists and eternalists over the existence of entities from the past, and the debate between actualists and possibilists over merely possible states of affairs. In the final section, the Element explores how to think about truthmakers for truths involving social constructions.-
The Methodology of Metaphysics
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The Metaphysics of Logic
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Metaphysics of Causation
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Metaphysics and the Sciences
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Metaphysics of Race
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Abstract Objects
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Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations
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The Metaphysics of Gender
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Relations
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Persistence
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Properties
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Substance
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Chemistry's Metaphysics
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Modal Naturalism
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The Metaphysics of Color
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Social Ontology
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Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics
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Metaontology
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Reduction, Emergence and the Metaphysics in Science
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Indeterminacy in the World
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Ontological Categories
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Dispositions and Powers
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Teleology
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Identity
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Formal Ontology
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Parts and Wholes
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Laws of Nature
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Material Objects
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Essence
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Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism
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Time
Asay, Jamin: - Jamin Asay is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Primitivist Theory of Truth (Cambridge, 2013) and numerous articles on truth, truthmaking and realism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009112031 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009112031 |
| Title | Truthmaking |
| Author | Jamin Asay |
| Series | Elements In Metaphysics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 75 |
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