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The Sorites Paradox Sergi Oms (Universitat de Barcelona)

The Sorites Paradox By Sergi Oms (Universitat de Barcelona)

The Sorites Paradox by Sergi Oms (Universitat de Barcelona)


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Introduces the sorites paradox at a level newcomers to the problem will understand. Offers a general primer and orientation for graduate students, together with specific introductions to all the main solutions to the paradox and its areas of influence, and elucidates the latest debates on the paradox for researchers.

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The Sorites Paradox by Sergi Oms (Universitat de Barcelona)

For centuries, the sorites paradox has spurred philosophers to think and argue about the problem of vagueness. This volume offers a guide to the paradox which is both an accessible survey and an expositionof the state of the art, with a chapter-by-chapter presentation of all of the main solutions to the paradox and of all its main areas of influence. Each chapter offers a gentle introduction to its topic, gradually building up to a final discussion of some open problems. Students will find a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of the paradox, together withlucid explanations of the challenges it continues to raise. Researchers will find exciting new ideas and debates on the paradox.

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'In this comprehensive and systematic collection, Oms (Univ. of Barcelona, Spain) and Zardini (Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal) provide nine excellent papers that characterize, and provide possible solutions for, the paradox's vagueness and another five papers that assess the influence of the sorites paradox's influence in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology Released in the 'Classic Philosophical Arguments' series, this is the most outstanding treatment of the topic presently available.' L. C. Archie, Choice

About Sergi Oms (Universitat de Barcelona)

Sergi Oms is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona. He has published in a number of journals, including Disputatio. Elia Zardiniis Research Fellowat the Centre of Philosophy, Universidade de Lisboa. He has published in a number of journals, including TheJournal of PhilosophyandThe Review of Symbolic Logic,and is co-editor ofScepticism and Perceptual Justification (2014).

Table of Contents

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Prelude; An introduction to the sorites paradox Sergi Oms and Elia Zardini; Part I. Solutions to the Sorites Paradox: 1. Epistemicism and the sorites paradox Ofra Magidor; 2. Supervaluationism, subvaluationism and the sorites paradox Pablo Cobreros and Luca Tranchini; 3. Contextualism and the sorites paradox Inga Bones and Diana Raffman; 4. Incoherentism and the sorites paradox Matti Eklund; 5. Intuitionism and the sorites paradox Crispin Wright; 6. Rejection of excluded middle and the sorites paradox Scott Soames; 7. Dialetheism and the sorites paradox Graham Priest; 8. Degree theory and the sorites paradox Francesco Paoli; 9. Non-transitivism and the sorites paradox Elia Zardini; Part II. The Influence of the Sorites Paradox: 10. The sorites paradox in philosophy of logic Sergi Oms; 11. The sorites paradox in metaphysics Irem Kurtsal; 12. The sorites paradox in practical philosophy Hrafn Asgeirsson; 13. The sorites paradox in linguistics Chris Kennedy; 14. The sorites paradox in psychology Paul Egre, David Ripley and Steven Verheyen; Coda: 15. The pre-analytic history of the sorites paradox Ricardo Santos; References; Index.

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GOR013232126
9781316615690
1316615693
The Sorites Paradox by Sergi Oms (Universitat de Barcelona)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2019-10-10
344
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