Sorites Paradox

Offers a systematic introduction and discussion of all the main solutions to the sorites paradox and its areas of influence.

About the author

Sergi Oms is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona. He has published in a number of journals, including Disputatio.Elia Zardini is Research Fellow at the Centre of Philosophy, Universidade de Lisboa. He has published in a number of journals, including The Journal of Philosophy and The Review of Symbolic Logic, and is co-editor of Scepticism and Perceptual Justification (2014).

Summary

Introduces the sorites paradox at a level newcomers to the problem will understand. Offers a general primer and orientation for graduate students, together with specific introductions to all the main solutions to the paradox and its areas of influence, and elucidates the latest debates on the paradox for researchers.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elia Zardini (Editor), Sergi Oms (Editor), Zardini Elia (Editor), Sergi (Universitat de Barcelona) Oms (Editor)
• Authors: Sergi Oms, Sergi (Universitat De Barcelona) Zardini Oms
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.10.2019
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9781316615690
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61569-0
• Pages: 344
• Series: Classic Philosophical Arguments; Classic Philosophical Argument
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Logic, SCIENCE / General, MATHEMATICS / General, Philosophy: logic, Mathematics & science, Mathematics and science