Vagueness - A Global Approach

This book develops a new theory of vagueness, based on the idea that vagueness is a global rather than a local phenomenon. This leads to a new semantics for vagueness and a new logic. Kit fine then applies this theory to traditional philosophical puzzles including the sorites paradox, the problem of personal identity and to the transparency of mental phenomenon.

List of contents

• Preface


• Chapter 1: The Problem of Vagueness


• Chapter 2: The Possibility of Vagueness


• Chapter 3: The Phenomenon of Vagueness


• Appendix A: The Impossibility Theorem


• Appendix B: Possibility Theorem


• References

About the author

Kit Fine is University Professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, is the recepient of the Annalieser Meier Award from the Humboldt Foundation, and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. His main areas of interest are logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, though he has published in other areas ranging from economic theory to computer science. He is the author of over a hundred articles in philosophy as well as Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (1985), The Limits of Abstraction (2002), Modality and Tense (2005) and Semantic Relationism (2007).

Summary

This book develops a new theory of vagueness, based on the idea that vagueness is a global rather than a local phenomenon. This leads to a new semantics for vagueness and a new logic. Kit fine then applies this theory to traditional philosophical puzzles including the sorites paradox, the problem of personal identity and to the transparency of mental phenomenon.

Additional text

Recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Kit Fine, Kit (University Professor and Silver Profess Fine, Kit (University Professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics Fine, Fine Kit
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780197514955
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751495-5
• No. of pages: 114
• Series: RUTGERS LECTURES IN PHILOSOPHY SERIES; The Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy
• 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 / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology