Deflating inflationism? Reflections on Douglas Edwards’ The Metaphysics of Truth

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (8):1463-1480 (2023)
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I assess Edwards' two principal arguments against Deflationary conceptions of Truth and argue that neither is fully successful, then revisit the ‘Inflationary’ argument of chapter 1 of Truth and Objectivity. A case is outlined for a more variegated account of the opposition between realist and anti-realist views of different regions of thought than Edwards' account permits.

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10.1080/0020174x.2022.2049528

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Replies to critics: Eklund, Sher, Wright, and Wyatt.Douglas Edwards - 2023 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (8):1538-1576.

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