John Buridan on Self-Reference

Klappentext John Buridan is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. Zusammenfassung John Buridan is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. The final chapter of Buridan's Sophismata deals with problems about self-reference! and in particular with the semantic paradoxes. He offers his own distinctive solution to the well-known 'Liar Paradox' and introduces a number of other paradoxes that will be unfamiliar to most logicians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Introductory sophisms; 2. Alethic paradoxes; 3. Epistemic paradoxes; 4. Pragmatic paradoxes; 5. Commentary; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John Buridan, G.E. Hughes
• Assisted by: G. E. Hughes (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521288644
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28864-4
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works