Trenton Merricks’Truth and Ontology

Abstract

One of the many remarkable things about Trenton Merricks’ Truth and Ontology is the incredibly wide range of issues discussed therein. I not only enjoyed (and profited from) thinking through the plentitude of always interesting and frequently convincing arguments made throughout the book, but I also discovered (in Fall 2009) that it’s an excellent book to assign for a high-powered class on contemporary metaphysics. My primary goal is to formulate and motivate what I hope to be some interesting questions to which Merricks will no doubt provide interesting answers in response. (Along the way, some arguments will be made.) To be honest, reading Merricks’ book was so stimulating that I barely know which questions I most want to ask. So I’ll simply plunge in.