Metaphysics and Truthmakers

The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian substances, states of affairs, meanings or essences ? ). Taking as their starting point a famous seminal paper by K. Mulligan, P. Simons and B. Smith, as well as D. Armstrong's outstanding contribution to the subject, they offer a fresh assay of the main concepts involved, in order to assess the explanatory value of truthmakers and truthmaker necessitarianism, and explore such delicate issues as contingent truth, bare possibility, tensed propositions, the ontological irreducibility of relations, the subsistence of facts and the epistemic role of negative truths. The collection as a whole provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking survey of the current debate about truthmaking theory and deserves to be read carefully by anyone interested in the relationship between language, thought and reality. With contributions from David ARMSTRONG, Stefano CAPUTO, François CLEMENTZ, Pascal ENGEL, Herbert HOCHBERG, Philipp KELLER, Jonathan LOWE, Jean-Maurice MONNOYER, Kevin MULLIGAN, Stephen MUMFORD, Frederic NEF, Peter SIMONS, Barry SMITH, Jonathan SIMON

Auteur
Jean-Maurice MONNOYER is Ph.D. in the Department of Philosophy (Aix-Marseille I), and in the SEMa (séminaire de métaphysique d''Aix en Provence). He was first the editor of Descartes, Frege, La Structure du monde : objets, propriétés, états de choses (Vrin, paris, 2004), Metaphysics and Truthmakers (Ontos verlag, 2007). Advisory editor of "Science et métaphysique" (Paris).

Contenu
Jean-Maurice MONNOYER : Vingt ans après Kevin MULLIGAN, Peter SIMONS, Barry SMITH : Truth-Makers (1984)
Kevin MULLIGAN : Two Dogmas of Truthmaking
Peter SIMONS : Truth in virtue of Meaning
Barry SMITH, Jonathan SIMON : Truthmaker Explanations
David ARMSTRONG : Truthmakers for Negative Truths and for truths of mere possibility
Philipp KELLER : A World of Truthmakers
David ARMSTRONG : Reply to Keller
François CLEMENTZ : Relational Truthmakers
Herbert HOCHBERG : Is True and Makes true, Two predicates without properties
Frederic NEF : Senex erit puer. Truthmakers for tensed sentences
Jonathan LOWE : Truthmaking as Essential Dependance
Pascal ENGEL : Identity Makers
Stefano CAPUTO : Truth-Making : what it is not and what it could be
Stephen MUMFORD : A new Solution to the Problem of Negative Truths
Peter SIMONS : The Price of Positivity : Mumford and Negatives