Truth: The Basics

Truth: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to philosophical theories about the nature of truth. The two authors - leading philosophers in this field - build the book around a single question: what, if anything, is common to all truths, which makes them true?

Jc Beall holds the O’Neill Family Chair in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Beall’s principal work is on truth, paradox, logic, and related issues. Among his publications are Logical Pluralism (Oxford UP, 2005), Spandrels of Truth (Oxford UP, 2009), and Formal Theories of Truth (Oxford UP, 2018). In addition, Beall is the author of Logic: The Basics (Routledge, 2017).

Ben Middleton has held postdoctoral positions in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and North Carolina State University. His published papers include work on non-classical logic and the semantic paradoxes.