Vagueness : a reader /

Vagueness is currently the subject of vigorous debate in the philosophy of logic and language. Vague terms - such as 'tall', 'red', 'bald', and 'tadpole' - have borderline cases (arguably, someone may be neither tall nor not tall); and they lack well-defined e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Keefe, Rosanna, Smith, Peter, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
©1996
Temas:
Vagueness (Philosophy)
Vague (Philosophie)
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Aufsatzsammlung
Vagheit
Vaagheid.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: theories of vagueness / Rosanna Keefe and Peter Smith
  • 2. On the sorites / Diogenes Laertius, Galen and Cicero
  • 3. Vagueness / Bertrand Russell
  • 4. Vagueness: an exercise in logical analysis / Max Black
  • 5. Vagueness and logic / Carl G. Hempel
  • 6. Truth and vagueness / Henryk Mehlberg
  • 7. The sorites paradox / James Cargile
  • 8. Wang's paradox / Michael Dummett
  • 9. Vagueness, truth and logic / Kit Fine
  • 10. Language-mastery and the sorites paradox / Crispin Wright
  • 11. Truth, belief and vagueness / Kenton F. Machina
  • 12. Further reflections on the sorites paradox / Crispin Wright
  • 13. Concepts without boundaries / R.M. Sainsbury
  • 14. Vagueness and ignorance / Timothy Williamson
  • 15. Sorites paradoxes and the semantics of vagueness / Michael Tye
  • 16. Vagueness by degress / Dorothy Edgington
  • 17. Can there be vague objects? / Gareth Evans
  • 18. Vague identity: Evans misunderstood / David Lewis.

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