Road to Paradox - A Guide to Syntax, Truth and Modality

This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It will be valuable for students and researchers with a minimal background in logic and will equip them to understand and discuss a wide variety of topics in philosophical logic.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Aims and Ends; 2. Technical Preliminaries; 3. Predicates and Conceptual Analysis; 4. Paradoxes over Logic; 5. A Theory of Expressions; 6. The Paradoxes; 7. Possible-Worlds Semantics; 8. An Expressive Theory of Expressions; 9. Consistency, Denotation, and Arithmetic; 10. Formal Language; 11. Formal Truth; 12. Generalizations and Intensionality; Bibliography.

About the author

Volker Halbach is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College, Oxford. He is the author of The Logic Manual (2010) and Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Cambridge, 2011).Graham E. Leigh is Associate Professor of Logic at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published a number of influential articles on the concepts of truth, reflection, and computation.

Summary

This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It will be valuable for students and researchers with a minimal background in logic and will equip them to understand and discuss a wide variety of topics in philosophical logic.

Foreword

A clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems.

Product details

• Authors: Volker Halbach, Volker (University of Oxford) Leigh Halbach, Halbach Volker, Graham E. Leigh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781108841016
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84101-6
• No. of pages: 418
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Semiotics / semiology, Philosophy: logic, Philosophical Logic