Realism and Truth

Forthcoming. ‘Democracy and the Metaphysics of Political Truth’. Analysis Reviews. (contribution to book symposium on Michael Lynch’s On Truth in Politics).

2024. ‘Science Denial, Cognitive Command, and the Theory-Ladenness of Observation: A Postscript for a Time of “Post-Truth”‘. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 32 (1): 198-210. [.pdf]

2023. ‘Deflating Inflationism? Reflections on Douglas Edwards’ The Metaphysics of Truth’. Inquiry 66 (8): 1463-80. [.pdf]

2013. ‘A Plurality of Pluralisms’. In Truth Pluralism: Current Debates, edited by Nikolaj Pedersen and Cory Wright. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

2012. ‘Meaning and Assertibility: Some Reflections on Paolo Casalegno’s ‘The Problem of Non-Conclusiveness”. Special number on the Philosophy of Paolo Casalegno, Dialectica 66 (2): 249-66. [.pdf]

2012. Part III of ‘Replies’. In Mind, Meaning and Knowledge: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright, edited by Annalisa Coliva. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

(with Hale, Bob). 2010. ‘Assertibilist Truth and Objective Content: Still Inexplicit?’. In Reading Brandom: Making It Explicit, edited by Bernhard Weiss and Jeremy Wanderer. Routledge. [.pdf]

2002. ‘What Could Anti-Realism About Ordinary Psychology Possibly Be?’. The Philosophical Review 111 (2): 205-33. [.pdf]

2001. ‘Minimalism, Deflationism, Pragmatism, Pluralism’. In The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Michael Lynch. MIT Press. [.pdf]

2000. ‘Truth as Sort of Epistemic: Putnam’s Peregrinations’. The Journal of Philosophy 97 (6): 335-64. [.pdf]

1998. ‘Truth: A Traditional Debate Reviewed’. Supplement, Canadian Journal of Philosophy on Pragmatism 24: 31-74. (reprinted in Blackburn, Simon and Simmons, Keith, eds. 1999. Truth. Oxford University Press.; German version in Vogel, Matthias and Wingert, Lutz, eds. 1999. Unsere Welt: gegeben oder gemacht? Menschliches Erkennen zwischen Entdeckung und Konstruktion. Suhrkamp Verlag. [.pdf]

1998. ‘Euthyphronism and the Physicality of Colour’. Special number on Response-Dependence, European Review of Philosophy 3: 15-30. [.pdf]

1998. ‘Comrades against Quietism: Reply to Simon Blackburn on Truth and Objectivity‘. Mind 107: 183-203. [.pdf]

(with Hale, Bob). 1997. ‘Putnam’s Model-theoretic Argument Against Metaphysical Realism’. In A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, edited by Bob Hale and Crispin Wright. Wiley-Blackwell. [.pdf]

1996. ‘Response to Commentators’. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (4): 911-41. (book précis on 863-8) [.pdf]

1995. ‘Can there be a Rationally Compelling Argument for Anti-realism about Ordinary (“Folk”) Psychology?’. Philosophical Issues 6: 197-221. (number containing the proceedings of the SOFIA conference on Content held at Lisbon in May 1994) [.pdf]

1995. ‘Truth and Coherence’. Synthese 103: 279-302. (critical study of Ralph C.S. Walker’s The Coherence Theory of Truth) [.pdf]

1994. ‘Realism, Pure and Simple?’. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2: 147-61. (reply to Timothy Williamson’s critical study of Truth and Objectivity) [.pdf]

1994. ‘Response to Jackson’. Philosophical Books 35: 169-75. (reply to Frank Jackson’s critical study of Truth and Objectivity) [.pdf]

1993. ‘Eliminative Materialism: Going Concern or Passing Fancy?’. Mind and Language 8: 316-26. [.pdf]

1993. ‘Scientific Realism and Observation Statements’. In Science and Subjectivity: The Vienna Circle and Twentieth Century Philosophy, edited by David Bell and Wilhelm Vossenkuhl. Akademie Verlag. (reprinted in 1993. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1: 231-54; slightly shortened version reprinted in Italian as 1995. ‘Il realismo scientifico e gli asserti osservativi’. In Realismo/Antirealismo: Aspetti del Dibattito Epistemologico Contemporaneo, edited by Alessando Pagnini. La Nuova Italia.) [.pdf]

1993. ‘Anti-realism: the Contemporary Debate – Whither Now?’. In Reality: Representation and Projection, edited by John Haldane and Crispin Wright. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

1993. ‘On an Argument on Behalf of Classical Negation’. Mind 102: 123-31. [.pdf]

1992. ‘Wohin führt die aktuelle Realismusdebatte?’. In Realismus und Antirealismus, edited by Wolfgang Kohler. Suhrkamp Verlag.

1989. ‘The Verification Principle – Another Puncture, Another Patch’. Mind 98: 611-22. [.pdf]

1989. ‘Misconstruals Made Manifest, a Response to Simon Blackburn’. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 14: 48-67. [.pdf]

1988. ‘Realism, Anti-Realism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism’. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 12: 25-49. (1987 Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture on Realism and Anti-Realism; reprinted in Kim, Jaegwon and Sosa, Ernest, eds. 1999. Metaphysics: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell. [.pdf]

1986. ‘Scientific Realism, Observation and the Verification Principle’. In Fact, Science and Morality, edited by Graham MacDonald and Crispin Wright. Wiley-Blackwell.

1985. Review of Simon Blackburn’s Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of Language. Mind 94: 310-19. [.pdf]

1984. ‘Second Thoughts about Criteria’. Synthese 58: 383-405. [.pdf]

1982. ‘Anti-realist Semantics: the role of Criteria’. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 13: 225-48. [.pdf]

1980. ‘Realism, Truth-value links, Other Minds and the Past’. In Papers on Language and Logic, edited by Jonathan Dancy. Keele University Library. (reprinted in 1980. Ratio, 22: 112-32. [.pdf]

1979. ‘Strawson on Anti-Realism’. Synthese 40: 283-99. [.pdf]

1978. Review of Samuel Guttenplan’s Mind and Language: Wolfson College Lectures 1974. Journal of Literary Semantics 7(2): 99-107. [.pdf]

1976. ‘Truth-Conditions and Criteria’. Supplement, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 50: 217-45. (reply to Roger Scruton. [.pdf]