Wyatt, Jeremy2024-11-272024-11-272024Wyatt, J. (2024, October 16-18). Truth as a cultural value [Conference item]. 2024 Australasian Association of Philosophy Online Conference., Conference held online via Whova.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/17065In this commentary, I offer an extended evaluation of the strategy for thinking about truth’s nature that Sher proposes. This strategy—which I call the ‘value-first strategy’—has it that we should first observe that truth is an intrinsic human value and then develop an account of truth’s nature on the basis of this observation. I begin by arguing that truth is best described as a cultural, rather than a human, value. I then argue that because truth is a cultural value, the value-first strategy compels us to seriously consider some novel ideas about truth’s nature that are respectively grounded in discussions about truth pluralism and some remarks by Alfred Tarski.© Australasian Association of Philosophy. Used with permission.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Conference Contribution