Liars and Heaps

New Essays on Paradox
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926481-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 579 g

Semantic and soritical paradoxes challenge entrenched, fundamental principles about language - principles about truth, denotation, quantification, and, among others, 'tolerance'. Study of the paradoxes helps us determine which logical principles are correct. So it is that they serve not only as a topic of philosophical inquiry but also as a constraint on such inquiry: they often dictate the semantic and logical limits of discourse in general. Sixteen specially written essays by leading figures in the field offer new thoughts and arguments about the paradoxes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beall, J. C.

Beall, JC

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Soritical Paradoxes

- 1: Graham Priest: A Site for Sorites

- 2: Achille C. Varzi: Cut-Offs and their Neighbours

- 3: Stewart Shapiro: Vagueness and Conversation

- 4: Rosanna Keefe: Context, Vagueness, and the Sorites

- 5: Crispin Wright: Vagueness: A Fifth Column Approach

- 6: Richard G. Heck, Jr.: Semantic Accounts of Vagueness

- 7: Scott Soames: Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates

- 8: Michael Glanzberg: Against Truth-Value Gaps

- 9: Delia Graff: Gap Principles, Penumbral Consequence, and Infinitely Higher-Order Vagueness

- Part II: Semantic Paradoxes

- 10: Roy A. Sorensen: A Definite No-No

- 11: Keith Simmons: Reference and Paradox

- 12: J. C. Beall: On the Singularity Theory of Denotation

- 13: Hartry Field: The Semantic Paradoxes and the Paradoxes of Vagueness

- 14: Stephen Yablo: New Grounds for Naive Truth Theory

- 15: Agustin Rayo and Timothy Williamson: A Completeness Theorem for Unrestricted First-Order Languages

- 16: Vann McGee: Universal Universal Quantification

Über Autor(innen)

Beall, J.C. (Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, USA)