Truth – Richard Brown

May·15·2017

Dispatches from the Ivory Tower

In celebration of my ten years in the blogosphere I have been compiling some of my past posts into thematic… Read more.

3–5 minutes

Aug·18·2012

Zombies vs Shombies

Richard Marshall, a writer for 3am Magazine, has been interviewing philosophers. After interviewing a long list of distinguished philosophers, including… Read more.

1–2 minutes

Nov·6·2008

Expressivism and the T-Schema

Expressivist like Blackburn like to invoke deflationary accounts of truth as a way to save the common sense intuition that… Read more.

1–2 minutes

Dec·3·2007

58th Philosophers’ Carnival

Welcome to 58th edition of the Philosophers’ Carnival! I am happy to be hosting the carnival again and glad to see… Read more.

1–2 minutes

Sep·28·2007

Selected Posts

I have decided to have a ‘selected posts’ section on the side bar that has links to some posts that… Read more.

1–2 minutes

Jul·27·2007

Truth and Necessity

I have been reading Jason Stanely’s paper on names and rigid designation from the Oxford Companion to the Philosophy of… Read more.

2–3 minutes

May·26·2007

Truth, Justification, and the Quasi-realist Way

In an earlier post (The Meaning and Use of ‘is True’) I argued that when discussing minimalism about truth we… Read more.

5–7 minutes

May·17·2007

The Truth About Santa

For those of you who are interested, there has been some really interesting discussion of my post There is no… Read more.

1–2 minutes

May·17·2007

The Meaning and Use of ‘is True’

The first thing that we need to do is to make a distinction between the redundancy theory of truth, which… Read more.

2–3 minutes

May·11·2007

There is No Santa Claus

Philosophers often speak about Santa Claus in the context of discussing the problem of names without reference. Since ‘Santa Claus’… Read more.

3–4 minutes