Richard Ladd Kirkham (born June 18, 1955) is an American philosopher.
[3] Kirkham graduated from Cornell College in 1977 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1983.
His 1992 book, Theories of Truth: A Critical Introduction, was received positively upon release.
According to MIT 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.
It has been used as a text in graduate seminars on every inhabited continent and translated into Portuguese and Russian.