Kit Fine

Vagueness: A Global Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a new theory of vagueness, based on the idea that vagueness is a global rather than a local phenomenon. This leads to a new semantics for vagueness and a new logic. Kit fine then applies this theory to traditional philosophical puzzles including the sorites paradox, the problem of personal identity and to the transparency of mental phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 134mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780197514955
• ISBN-10: 0197514952
• Artikelnr.: 58813379

Autorenporträt

Kit Fine is University Professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, is the recepient of the Annalieser Meier Award from the Humboldt Foundation, and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. His main areas of interest are logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, though he has published in other areas ranging from economic theory to computer science. He is the author of over a hundred articles in philosophy as well as Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (1985), The Limits of Abstraction (2002), Modality and Tense (2005) and Semantic Relationism (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: The Problem of Vagueness
Chapter 2: The Possibility of Vagueness
Chapter 3: The Phenomenon of Vagueness
Appendix A: The Impossibility Theorem
Appendix B: Possibility Theorem
References