Truth 20/20: How a Global Pandemic Shaped Truth Research

​Adam C. Podlaskowski is a Full Professor of Philosophy at Fairmont State University. One of the co-founders of the Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research, he continues to serve on its steering committee which arranges and hosts talks about truth in a virtual format. His research currently focuses on the intersection of meaning and metaphysics, the extent to which metasemantic assumptions drive certain research programs, and the overall need for a more pluralistic approach to theorizing about linguistic meaning. Much of his published work has been on the topics of pluralism and semantics, rule-following and dispositional accounts of meaning, infinitism and the structure of justification (with Joshua Smith), truth and semantics, and truth and doxastic norms. Drew Johnson is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut, and a current Research Fellow andformer Graduate Assistant at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. In his role at the UConn Humanities Institute, Drew provided administrative support for the Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research. His research focuses on the role that our most firmly held intellectual commitments play in our overall epistemic frameworks, and the significance of such commitments for deep disagreement, public discourse, and knowledge. He is also currently developing a theory of the function of ethical judgment in terms of its particular social coordinating role. Drew has published on hinge epistemology, deep disagreement, skepticism, intellectual humility, and expression and self-knowledge (with Dorit Bar-On).

• Introduction (Adam C Podlaskowski and Drew Johnson).- 1 Smoke and Flickering Shadows: Strawson and Evans on Truth and Factuality (Huw Price, Douglas Edwards, Cheryl Misak, and Amie Thomasson).- 2 On Douglas Edwards’ The Metaphysics of Truth: The Author Meets His Critics (Douglas Edwards, Nathan Kellen, Michael Lynch, and David Taylor).- 3 On Cheryl Misak’s Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers: The Author Meets Her Critics (Cheryl Misak, Simon Blackburn, and Jennifer Hornsby).- 4 Let’s Tell the Truth: Expressive Meaning and Propositional Quantification (María José Frápolli).- 5 Truth May Be Redundant (Marcus Rossberg).- 6 Validity as Truth-Conduciveness (Arvid Båve).- 7 Frege on Knowledge, Science, and Logic: Truth qua the Reference of True Sentences (Junyeol Kim).- 8 Myth of the Conceptual Necessity of Truth-Directed Communication (Kensuke Ito).- 9 Truth and Polarization (Michael Lynch, Maria Baghramian, Cailin O'Connor, Robert Barnard, Joe Ulatowski, and Chase Wrenn).- 10 Political Bald-Faced Lies are Performative Utterances (Susanna Melkonian-Altshuler).- 11 Truth and the Functions of Political Discourse: Concluding Reflections (Adam C Podlaskowski and Drew Johnson).- Index.