(P/B) LIARS AND HEAPS

Παρουσίαση

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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

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