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Truth depends in some sense on reality, but it is difficult to spell out this intuition in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making the intuition implies that either every truth or every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entity whose existence accounts for truth. This book provides several ways of assessing the correctness of this controversial claim. It presents a detailed introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making entities, and the scope of a truth-maker theory. The essays include the most important articles on truth-making in the last three decades as well as new work by leading researchers in the field of the theory of truth and of truth-making.
Contributors include Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons, Barry Smith, Greg Restall, David Lewis, David Armstrong, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Josh Parsons, Herbert Hochberg, Marian David, and Paul Horwich.
"A useful source. It includes a number of key papers in the truth-maker literature and offers up-to-date views on the existing debates. The volume will provide working philosophers with a handy source of 'classic' papers, as well as some new and innovative ideas and arguments. The range of papers included ought to provide a useful collection for an upper level undergraduate class or graduate class. Anyone who has an interest in the truth-maker debate will most likely find something here that makes it worth owning the book." Metapsychology