Dorothy Grover is a contemporary analytic philosopher best known for developing the prosentential theory of truth, a form of deflationism that treats 'true' as a prosentence-forming operator rather than a genuine predicate. Working with Joseph Camp and Nuel Belnap, she argued that 'it is true' functions anaphorically, inheriting content from prior discourse rather than describing a substantive property. Her work has been central to debates about the nature of truth, deflationism, and the limits of correspondence theories.
Co-developed the prosentential theory of truth with Camp and Belnap (1975)
Authored A Prosentential Theory of Truth (1992), the definitive monograph on prosententialism
Advanced deflationary accounts of truth by grounding them in anaphoric reference
Contributed to debates on the expressive role of 'true' in generalizations and indirect discourse
Challenged correspondence and redundancy theories by offering a syntactic-functional alternative
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