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Kirkham graduated from Cornell College in 1977 and received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1983.
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Among his published works are the much-cited Theories of Truth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1992), "Does the Gettier Problem Rest on a Mistake?" Mind (1984 Vol93, No372), and "On Paradoxes and a Surprise Exam" Philosophia (1991). Kirkham is probably best known for his work on analytic theories of truth. In his praised book, Theories of Truth, Kirkham describes the largely overlooked fact that the various theories of truth proposed through the centuries are really not all competitors of each other because they are often intended to answer distinct questions about truth.
Foreign example, some have been intended only to provide the extensional necessary and sufficient conditions for truth, while others have been intended to provide a definition of truth, and still others are intended only to explain the linguistic and non-linguistic purposes of statements that predicate truth or falsity.
lieutenant has been used as a text in graduate seminars on every inhabited continent and translated into Portuguese. He is also the author of four articles in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1998).
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According to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, this book is their all-time best-selling work in analytic philosophy and nearly half of all English-reading professional philosophers in the world own a personal copy of the book
