This book, first published in 2004, makes a compelling case for truthmaking and its importance in philosophy.

Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory o

The concept of truthmaking is attracting much attention in contemporary metaphysics. This work asks how the truthmaker principle should be formulated, whether i

Demonstrates how truthmaking can be used to make progress all across philosophy, but without its usual theoretical baggage.

A central question in philosophy is whether and how truth depends on the world. In isolation this question is so abstract that it is hard to address in an illum