In PDF format:

Charles Sanders Peirce, “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” Popular Science Monthly, vol. 12 (1877-78), pp. 286-302 (PDF: 1up, 2up)

William James, “Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth,” lecture 6 of Pragmatism (PDF: 1up, 2up)

Bertrand Russell, “William James’s Conception of Truth,” essay 5 of Philosophical Essays (PDF: 1up, 2up)

————, “The Monistic Theory of Truth,” essay 6 of Philosophical Essays (PDF with sel. below: 1up, 2up)

————, ¶¶1-11 of “Truth and Falsehood,” ch.12 of The Problems of Philosophy (PDF included with the above: 1up, 2up)

————, “On the Nature of Truth and Falsehood,” essay 7 of Philosophical Essays (PDF: 1up, 2up)

JSTOR:

Harold Joachim, “‘Absolute’ and ‘Relative’ Truth,” Mind, n.s., vol. 14 (1905), pp. 1-14 (on JSTOR at 2248069—and on PDF: 1up, 2up)

Frank Ramsey, “Facts and Propositions,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supplement, vol. 7 (1927), pp. 153-170 (on JSTOR at 4106403)

A. J. Ayer, “The Criterion of Truth,” Analysis, vol. 3 (1935), pp. 28-32 (on JSTOR at 3326615)

Carl Hempel, “On the Logical Positivists’ Theory of Truth,” Analysis, vol. 2 (1935), pp. 49-59 (on JSTOR at 3326781)

Alfred Tarski, “The Semantic Conception of Truth: and the Foundations of Semantics,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 4 (1944), pp. 341-376 (on JSTOR at 2102968)

Scott Soames, “What is a Theory of Truth?,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 81 (1984), pp. 411-429 (on JSTOR at 2026307)

Michael Dummett, “The Reality of the Past,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, n. s., vol. 69 (1968 - 1969), pp. 239-258 (on JSTOR at 4544778)

Hilary Putnam, “Realism and Reason,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 50 (1977), pp. 483-498 (on JSTOR at 3129784)

————, “The Face of Cognition,” Lecture III of “Sense, Nonsense, and the Senses: An Inquiry into the Powers of the Human Mind,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 91 (1994), pp. 488-517 (on JSTOR at 2940978?seq=44)

Crispin Wright, “Précis of Truth and Objectivity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 56 (1996), pp. 863-868 (on JSTOR at 2108286)

Cory Wright, “On the Functionalization of Pluralist Approaches to Truth,” Synthese, vol. 145 (2005), pp. 1-28 (on JSTOR at 20118579)

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