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The Knowability Paradox - Bok av Jonathan L. (University of Missouri) Kvanvig - Häftad

The paradox of knowability poses difficulties to our understanding of truth. It claims that if we assume a truth is knowable, we can demonstrate that it is known. Kvanvig unearths the ways in which the paradox is threatening, and sets out an approach to the paradox that solves both problems raised by the paradox for our understanding of truth.

Deflationism and Paradox - Bok - Häftad

A distinguished team of contributors explore deflationist accounts of truth and the extent to which, if at all, they can accommodate paradox. The volume will be of interest to philosophers of logic, philosophers of language, and anyone working on truth.

Revenge of the Liar - New Essays on the Paradox - Bok - Häftad

Fourteen new essays by some of the world's leading experts, together with an extensive introduction, examine the nature of the Liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it.

Revenge of the Liar - New Essays on the Paradox - Bok - Inbunden

Fourteen new essays by some of the world's leading experts, together with an extensive introduction, examine the nature of the Liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it.

The Possibility of Inquiry - Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus - Bok av Gail (Cornell University) Fine - Häftad

Gail Fine presents the first full-length study of Meno's Paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's Meno. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key questions concerning the nature of knowledge and inquiry.

Possibilities and Paradox - An Introduction to Modal and Many-Valued Logic - Bok av JC ( Beall - Häftad

Extensively classroom-tested, this text provides an accessible and carefully structured introduction to modal and many-valued logic. The authors cover the basic formal frameworks, as well as considering a variety of philosophical issues surrounding 'possibilities and paradox'.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox - Bok - Häftad

Organizations are rife with paradoxes, evident in persistent and interwoven tensions for example between stability and change, flexibility and control, diversity and inclusion, long term and short term, social and financial, learning and performing. This Handbook investigates paradoxes across various organizational phenomena and levels of analysis.

Liars and Heaps - New Essays on Paradox - Bok - Häftad

Logic is fundamental to thought and language. But which logical principles are correct? The so-called Liar and Heap paradoxes challenge our basic ideas about logic; they teach us that the correct logical principles are not as obvious as common sense would have it. The essays in this volume, discuss novel thoughts about the paradoxes.

Essays in Ethical Theory - Bok av R. M. (Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy Hare - Häftad

These collected essays supply theoretical background to the author's work on moral philosophy. His central theme is the paradox that, if moral judgements were just statements of fact, relativism would be inescapable.

A Most Ingenious Paradox : The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan

The Paradox of Constitutionalism - Constituent Power and Constitutional Form - Bok - Häftad

In modern political communities ultimate authority is often thought to reside with 'the people'. This book examines how constitutions act as a delegation of power from 'the people' to representative and expert institutions, and looks at the attendant problems of maintaining the legitimacy of these constitutional arrangements.

Saving Truth From Paradox - Bok av Hartry (New York University) Field - Häftad

This is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Goedel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches.

Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy - Bok av David (Emeritus Pears - Häftad

David Pears offers penetrating investigations and lucid explications of some of the most influential and yet puzzling writings of twentieth-century philosophy. He focuses on the idea of language as a picture of the world; the phenomenon of linguistic regularity; the famous 'private language argument'; logical necessity; and ego and the self.

Truth and Paradox - Solving the Riddles - Bok av Tim (Department of Philosophy Maudlin - Häftad

Consider the sentence 'This sentence is not true'. It seems that the sentence can be neither true nor not true, on pain of contradiction. This work presents an account of logic and semantics which deals with these paradoxes, and sets out a different theory of truth-values and the norms governing claims about truth.

Heinrich von Kleist - The Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form - Bok av Hilda Meldrum (Reader in German Brown - Inbunden

Study of the works of the German author which offers a new perspective in which the visual and theatrical features are emphasised alongside Kleist's familiar and all-pervasive irony and paradox. His complex dramas, and prose tales are approached via literary, or pre-literary features displayed in his early letters.

'There Are No Slaves in France' - The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime - Bok av Sue (Assistant Professor of History Peabody

Examines the paradox of political anti-slavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Through studying the confrontations between the principal of freedom and the fact of slavery, this book examines how French national myths concerning liberty were transformed by the presence of enslaved blacks in the metropolis.

Reading Frege's Grundgesetze - Bok av Jr. Heck - Inbunden

Richard G. Heck presents a new account of Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, or Basic Laws of Arithmetic, which establishes it as a neglected masterpiece at the center of Frege's philosophy. He explores Frege's philosophy of logic, and argues that Frege knew that his proofs could be reconstructed so as to avoid Russell's Paradox.

Reading Frege's Grundgesetze - Bok av Jr. Heck - Häftad

Richard G. Heck presents a new account of Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, or Basic Laws of Arithmetic, which establishes it as a neglected masterpiece at the center of Frege's philosophy. He explores Frege's philosophy of logic, and argues that Frege knew that his proofs could be reconstructed so as to avoid Russell's Paradox.

The Great Silence - Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox - Bok av Milan M. (Research Professor Cirkovic - Inbunden

Researchers believe that the universe is vast enough that life has evolved and become technological many times, - yet we have seen no trace of extraterrestrial intelligence. This conundrum, known as the Fermi pardox, is the deepest mystery in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Put simply, where is everybody?

Happiness Around the World - The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires - Bok av Carol (Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair Graham

The book reviews the theory and concepts of happiness, explaining how these concepts underpin a line of research that is both an attempt to understand the determinants of happiness and a tool for understanding the effects of a host of phenomena on human well being.