Formal Theories of Truth

Jc Beall is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of Spandrels of Truth (2009) and co-author of Logical Pluralism (2005), both published by OUP.Michael Glanzberg is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, having previously taught at MIT, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Davis. He works in the areas of philosophy of language, logic, and metaphysics. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Truth (2018).David Ripley is Lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University, Australia, having previously been Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. He works mainly on logic and the philosophy of language, with special attention to the relations between logic and language, and what we can learn about these relations by studying paradoxes of truth, validity, and vagueness.

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• 1: Introduction 2: Truth-theoretic paradoxes: a select sampling 3: Ingredients of a Liar 4: Preliminaries and technicalities 5: Nonclassical logic: unrestricted capture--release 6: Classical logic: restricted capture--release 7: Digging beneath the structure 8: Other directions: revision and inconsistency 9: Closing remarks