Reflections on the Liar

Zusatztext The helpful introduction includes a brief description of each essay, and the index is comprehensive. ... Recommended. Informationen zum Autor Bradley Armour-Garb is Professor of Philosophy at University of Albany. He is the co-editor of Deflationism and Paradox (OUP 2006) and author of The Law of Non-Contradiction (OUP 2004). Klappentext There are a number of people who do great work in philosophy who have said very little about the Liar paradox. The purpose of this volume is to afford those philosophers the opportunity to address what might be described as reflections on the Liar. Zusammenfassung There are a number of people who do great work in philosophy who have said very little about the Liar paradox. The purpose of this volume is to afford those philosophers the opportunity to address what might be described as reflections on the Liar. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Bradley Armour-Garb: Introduction: Reflections on the Liar 2: Bradley Armour-Garb and Peter Unger: From No People to No Languages: A Nihilistic Response to the Liar-Family of Semantic Paradoxes 3: Robert Barnard, Joseph Ulatowski, and Jonathan M. Weinberg: Thinking about the Liar, Fast and Slow 4: Susanne Bobzien: Gestalt shifts in the Liar or Why KT4M is the Logic of Semantic Modalities 5: Gilbert Harman: Toward Resolving the Liar Paradox 6: Peter Ludlow: Microlanguages, Vagueness, and Paradox 7: Paul M. Pietroski: I-Languages and T-sentences 8: Ian Rumfitt: The Liar without Truth 9: James R. Shaw: Semantics for Semantics 10: Kevin Scharp and Stewart Shapiro: Revising Inconsistent Concepts 11: Gila Sher: Truth and Transcendence: Turning the Tables on the Liar Paradox 12: Bruno Whittle: Truth, Hierarchy, and Incoherence 13: Timothy Williamson: Semantic Paradoxes and Abductive Methodology 14: Cory Wright: Pluralism and the Liar

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• Authors: Bradley Armour-Garb, Bradley (EDT) Armour-Garb, Bradley (Professor of Philosophy Armour-Garb
• Assisted by: Bradley Armour-Garb (Editor), Bradley (Professor of Philosophy Armour-Garb (Editor), Armour-Garb Bradley (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780199896042
• ISBN: 978-0-19-989604-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge