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Vagueness

edited by Delia Graff and Timothy Williamson

(The international research library of philosophy, 27 . Metaphysics and epistemology)

Ashgate : Dartmouth, c2002

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Collected essays from English-language journals

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Vagueness, volume XX, contains twenty-seven essays, with issues covered including: nihilism, phenomenal sorites, degrees of truth, epistemicism, higher-order vagueness, contextualism, and intuitionism. Written by leading contemporary philosophers, these essays will be of interest to researchers in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and epistemology; as well as those in natural language semantics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science more generally. A substantial introduction written by the editors provides a guide to the topic and to the essays in the volume.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: There are no ordinary things, Peter Unger
  • On that which is not, Samuel C. Wheeler
  • Nostalgia for the ordinary: comments on papers by Unger and Wheeler, David H. Sanford. Sorites, Bertil Rolf
  • An argument for the vagueness of 'vague', Roy A. Sorensen. Observational Predicates: On the coherence of the vague predicates, Crispin Wright
  • Phenomenal colors and sorites, C.L. Hardin
  • Are vague predicates incoherent?, Christopher Peacock. Degrees of Truth: Degrees of belief and degrees of truth, R.M. Sainsbury
  • Validity, uncertainty and vagueness, Dorothy Edgington. Epistemicism: The sorites paradox, Richmond Campbell
  • What makes it a heap?, Timothy Williamson
  • Hat-tricks and heaps, W.D. Hart. Higher-Order Vagueness: Is there a higher-order vagueness?, R.M. Sainsbury
  • Is higher-order vagueness coherent?, Crispin Wright
  • Wright and Sainsbury on higher-order vagueness, Dorothy Edgington
  • A note on the logic of (higher-order) vagueness, Richard G. Heck Jr
  • On the structure of higher-order vagueness, Timothy Williamson
  • Why higher-order vagueness is a pseudo-problem, Dominic Hyde
  • Why the vague need not be higher-order vague, Michael Tye. Contextualism: The paradox of the heap, Hans Kamp
  • The liar and sorites paradoxes: toward a unified treatment, Jamie Tappenden
  • Vagueness without paradox, Diana Raffman. Intuitionism: Vagueness and alternative logic, Hilary Putnam
  • Hairier than Putnam thought, Stephen Read and Crispin Wright
  • A quick read is a wrong Wright, Hilary Putnam
  • Putnam on the sorites paradox, Timothy Williamson
  • Index.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA58001567
  • ISBN
    • 0754620808
  • LCCN
    00029308
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxviii, 508 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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