Philosophy of Language Reading Seminar: Truth and Success

• Discussion leader: Giorgio Volpe
• Venue: sala Rossa, III floor, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

 
Reading material:

• P. Kitcher, 'On the Explanatory Role of Correspondence Truth', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (2002), pp. 346-364 [attached below]

 
Further optional readings:
 
Background reading

• H. Field, 'The Deflationary Conception of Truth', in G. Macdonald and C. Wright (eds.), Fact, Science and Morality: Essays on A.J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic, Oxford: Blackwell, 1986, pp. 55-117, esp. pp. 55-67, 89-105 [attached below]
• S. Leeds, 'Truth, Correspondence, and Success', Philosophical Studies 79 (1995), pp. 1-36 [attached below]

Two discussions of Kitcher's argument

• D. Whitcomb, 'Kitcher, Correspondence, and Success', http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001776/01/kitcher,_corresponde...
• C. Wrenn, 'Practical Success and the Nature of Truth', forthcoming (Synthese) [attached below]

Also of interest

• N. Damnjanovic, 'Deflationism and the Success Argument', The Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2005), pp. 53-67 [attached below]