Peter A. French & Howard K. Wettstein 
Truth and its Deformities, Volume XXXII 

Truth and Its Deformities is the 32nd volume in the Midwest Studies in Philosophy series. It contains major new contributions on a range of topics related to the general theme of the volume by some of the most important philosophers writing on truth in recent years.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Truth and Meaning: In Perspective (Scott Soames).

The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth (Susan
Haack)

Believing at Will (Kieran Setiya)

Common Sense as Evidence: Against Revisionary Ontology and
Skepticism (Thomas Kelly)

Why We Should Prefer Knowledge (Steven L. Reynolds)

Knowledge, Truth, and Bullshit: Reflections on Frankfurt
(Erik J. Olsson)

Pragmatism on Solidarity, Bullshit, and other Deformities of
Truth (Cheryl Misak)

Alethic Pluralism, Logical Consequence and the Universality of
Reason (Michael P. Lynch)

Grading, Sorting, and the Sorites (Tim Maudlin)

Where the Paths Meet: Remarks on Truth and Paradox (JC Beall
and Michael Glanzberg)

Pointless Truth (Jonathan Kvanvig).

Indeterminate Truth (Patrick Greenough).

Truth in Semantics (Max Kölbel).

Being and Truth (Paul Horwich).

Quine’s Ladder: Two and a Half Pages from the Philosophy of
Logic (Marian David).

Truth-defi nitions and Defi nitional Truth (Douglas
Patterson).

Über den Autor

Dr. Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the
Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State
University. He was the Cole Chair in Ethics, Director of the Ethics
Center, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy of the University
of South Florida. Before that he was the Lennox Distinguished
Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Trinity
University in San Antonio, Texas. He has taught at Northern Arizona
University; the University of Minnesota; Dalhousie University, Nova
Scotia, and served as Exxon Distinguished Research Professor in the
Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware.

Dr. French has a BA from Gettysburg College, an MA from the
University of Southern California, a Ph.D. from the University of
Miami. He received a Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) honorary
degree from Gettysburg College in 2006.

Dr. French has an international reputation in ethical and legal
theory and in collective and corporate responsibility and criminal
liability. He is the author of nineteen books including The Virtues
of Vengeance, Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns,
Ethics and College Sports, Corporate Ethics, War and Border
Crossings: Ethics When Cultures Clash, Responsibility Matters,
Corporations in the Moral Community, The Spectrum of
Responsibility, Collective and Corporate Responsibility, Corrigible
Corporations and Unruly Laws, Ethics in Government, and The Scope
of Morality. He is currently writing a book with the working title
Our Better Angels Have Broken Wings While the Pukin Dogs Are Flying
Overhead, that concludes with a memoir of his experiences at bases
around the world teaching ethics to Navy and Marine
chaplains who were either returning from the war in Iraq or about
to be deployed there. Dr. French has lectured at locations
around the world. Some of his works have been translated into
Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, French, and Spanish. Amazon.com
lists 48 books credited to him as author, editor, or co-editor
published by major commercial and university presses.

Dr. French is a senior editor of Midwest Studies in Philosophy. He
was the editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy and general
editor of the Issues in Contemporary Ethics series. He has
published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal
journals and reviews, many of which have been anthologized. He is a
member of the Board of Governors and a Founding Fellow of the
Arizona Academy of Science, Technology and the Arts.

Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of California, Riverside. He holds a B.A. degree in
Philosophy from Yeshiva College, an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the City
University of New York. Wettstein has published two books, The
Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (Oxford
University Press, 2004) and Has Semantics Rested On a Mistake?, and
Other Essays (Stanford University Press, 1991) and a number of
papers in the philosophy of language, one focus of his research.
Another and current focus is the philosophy of religion, publishing
papers on topics like awe, doctrine, ritual, the problem of evil,
and the viability of philosophical theology. He is currently at
work on a book in the philosophy of religion. He is a senior editor
(with Peter French) of Midwest Studies in Philosophy, and has
edited a number of other volumes including Themes From Kaplan
(Oxford University Press, 1989, co-edited) and Diasporas and
Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity (University of California
Press, 2002).