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

The paradox of knowability poses real difficulties to our understanding of truth. This title unearths the ways in which the paradox is threatening, and then delineates an approach to the paradox that solves both of the problems raised by the paradox for our understanding of truth. It is suitable for logicians and epistemologists.

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.

New Essays on the Knowability Paradox - Bok - Inbunden

The knowability paradox suggests that wherever there is empirical ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth. This volume presents the original papers in which this notorious problem was first set out, nineteen new papers seeking to resolve it, and a helpful introduction. It will be the definitive resource for study of the paradox.

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.

Deflationism and Paradox - Bok - Inbunden

Deflationist accounts of truth are widely held in philosophy: they seek to show that truth is a dispensable concept with no metaphysical depth. This volume of 14 essays explores the extent to which, if at all, deflationism can accommodate paradox. It is of interest to philosophers of logic, philosophers of language, and those working on truth.

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.

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.

The Yablo Paradox - An Essay on Circularity - Bok av Roy T (University of Minnesota Cook - Inbunden

Roy T Cook examines the Yablo paradox-a paradoxical, infinite sequence of sentences, each of which entails the falsity of all others that follow it. He focuses on questions of characterization, circularity, and generalizability, and pays special attention to the idea that it provides us with a semantic paradox that involves no circularity.

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

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.

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'.

Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture - Bok - Inbunden

This collection of essays examines the presence of what might be seen as an unclassical love of paradox and the marvellous in the literature and art of Augustan Rome, and shows that it is an important strain in the poetry of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as in prose works of history and rhetoric, and in the Augustan visual arts.

The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages - Bok av Astrid (Postdoctoral Researcher De Wit - Inbunden

This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'.

Moore's Paradox - New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person - Bok - Inbunden

G. E. Moore observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would be 'absurd'. Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers. In the definitive treatment of the famous paradox, Green and Williams explain its history and relevance and present new essays by leading thinkers in the area.

What is Identity? - Bok av C. J. F. (Professor of Philosophy Williams - Inbunden

The concept of identity has been seen to lead to a paradox - we cannot truly and usefully say that a thing is the same either as itself or as something else. This book is a full examination of this paradox in philosophical logic, and of its implications for the philosophy of mathematics.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox - Bok - Inbunden

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.

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.

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

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.

Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity - Bok - Häftad

Distinguished experts from a range of disciplines with a common interest in late antiquity probe the apparent paradox of pagan monotheism, and reach a better understanding of the historical roots of Christianity.

A Most Ingenious Paradox : The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan

Sovereignty - A Contribution to the Theory of Public and International Law - Bok av Hermann Heller - Inbunden

In this 1927 work, Hermann Heller addresses the paradox of sovereignty, with a discussion spanning the disciplines of history, constitutional and political theory, and international law. The book includes a substantial introductory essay by David Dyzenhaus.

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.

Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity - Bok - Inbunden

Distinguished experts from a range of disciplines (Orientalists, philologists, philosophers, theologians, and historians) with a common interest in late antiquity probe the apparent paradox of pagan monotheism and reach a better understanding of the historical roots of Christianity.