For the first time Truth A Contemporary Reader brings together essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic the nature of truth and the value of truthFeaturingessays this uptodate reader includes seminal work by leading figures in contemporary analytic philosophy It charts the development of the central grand proposals about the nature of truth and subsequently how their influence gradually diminished in face of new theories developed in the th and stcenturies The reader also demonstrates how truth is often taken to be valuable in various ways in particular as the norm of correctness for belief and assertion and the relationship between truth and other epistemic valuesWith introductory overviews to each group of related papers complemented by guides to further reading this reader introduces the central debates familiarizes students with the most important work in the field and covers pivotal theories of truth including correspondence theoriescoherentism