Wyatt, Jeremy2026-03-052026-03-052025Wyatt, J. (2025, February 12-13). Truth as a cultural value [Conference item]. Conspiracies, Facts, and Truth: A Workshop, Conference held at University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/18035In this talk, I will focus primarily on a strategy for thinking about truth's nature that has been recently proposed by Gila Sher.  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 will begin by arguing that truth is best described as a cultural, rather than a human, value.  I will 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.  To close, I will briefly illustrate how truth's status as a cultural value bears on current sociopolitical debates which concern the value of truth.enThis is a presentation from the conference Conspiracies, Facts, and Truth: A Workshop. © The author 2025.Conference Contribution