Graff, D & Williamson, T [2002] (eds.) Vagueness (The International Research Library of Philosophy), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing..
Vagueness, volume XX, contains twenty-seven essays, with issues covered including: nihilism, phenomenal sorites, degrees of truth, epistemicism, higher-order vagueness, contextualism, and intuitionism. Written by leading contemporary philosophers, these essays will be of interest to researchers in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and epistemology; as well as those in natural language semantics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science more generally. A substantial introduction written by the editors provides a guide to the topic and to the essays in the volume.
Contents
Contents:
Peter Unger (1989) There are no Ordinary Things;
Samuel C. Wheeler (1979) On that Which is Not;
David H. Sanford (1979) Nostalgia for the Ordinary: Comments on Papers by Unger and Wheeler;
Bertil Rolf (1984) Sorites;
Roy A. Sorensen (1985) An Argument for the Vagueness of "Vague".
Observational Predicates:
Crispin Wright (1975) On the Coherence of the Vague Predicates;
C.L. Hardin (1988) Phenomenal Colors and Sorites;
Christopher Peacocke (1981) Are Vague Predicates Incoherent?.
Degrees of Truth:
R.M. Sainsbury (1986) Degrees of Belief and Degrees of Truth;
Dorothy Edgington (1992) Validity, Uncertainty and Vagueness.
Epistemicism:
Richmond Campbell (1974) The Sorites Paradox;
Timothy Williamson (1996) What Makes it a Heap?;
W.D. Hart (1992) Hat-Tricks and Heaps.
Higher-Order Vagueness:
R.M. Sainsbury (1991) Is There a Higher-Order Vagueness?;
Crispin Wright (1992) Is Higher-Order Vagueness Coherent?;
Dorothy Edgington (1993) Wright and Sainsbury on Higher-Order Vagueness;
Richard G. Heck Jr (1993) A Note on the Logic of (Higher-Order) Vagueness;
Timothy Williamson (1999) On the Structure of Higher-Order Vagueness;
Dominic Hyde (1994) Why Higher-Order Vagueness is a Pseudo-Problem;
Michael Tye (1994) Why the Vague Need Not be Higher-Order Vague.
Contextualism:
Hans Kamp (1981) The Paradox of the Heap;
Jamie Tappenden (1993) The Liar and Sorites Paradoxes: Toward a Unified Treatment;
Diana Raffman (1994) Vagueness Without Paradox.
Intuitionism:
Hilary Putnam (1983) Vagueness and Alternative Logic;
Stephen Read and Crispin Wright (1985) Hairier than Putnam Thought;
Hilary Putnam (1985) A Quick Read is a Wrong Wright;
Timothy Williamson (1996) Putnam on the Sorites Paradox.
Index.
Further Information
Affiliation: Delia Graff, Cornell University, USA and Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford, UK
ISBN: 0 7546 2080 8
Publication Date: 07/2002
Number of Pages: 536 pages
Binding: Hardback
Binding Options: Available in Hardback only
Book Size: 244 x 169 mm