The Metaphysics of Truth

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 institutional domains, 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 that there 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.