Thematic bibliography on vagueness and the Sorites Paradox

Last updated: 16th July 2003

Introductory

Williamson, Timothy [1994] Vagueness, London: Routledge.
Sorensen, Roy A [1995] Entries 'Sorites' and 'Vagueness', in Companion to Metaphysics ed. Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim, Oxford: Blackwell.
Sorensen, Roy A [1996] Vagueness, in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New York: MacMillan.
Sainsbury, Mark & Williamson, Timothy [1997] Sorites, in Hale, R & Wright, C (eds), Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Blackwell.
Merricks, Trenton [2001] 'Varieties of Vagueness', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62, pp. 145-57.
Hyde, Dominic [2002] Sorites Paradox, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2002 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
Sorensen, Roy A [2002] Vagueness, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2002 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
Weatherson, Brian [2003?] Truer Words, .
Greenough, Patrick [2003] 'Vagueness: A Minimal Theory', Mind 112, pp. 235-81. [abstract]

Historical surveys

Thompson, M [1953] The Pragmatic Philosophy of C S Peirce, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Moline, J [1969] 'Aristotle, Eubulides, and the Sorites', Mind 78, pp. 393-407.
Kohl, M [1969] 'Bertrand Russell on Vagueness', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 47, pp. 31-41.
Brock, Jarrett [1979] 'Principal Themes in Peirce's Logic of Vagueness', Peirce Studies 1, pp. 41-9.
Sainsbury, Mark [1979] Russell, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Burnyeat, Myles [1982] Gods and Heaps, in M Schofield & M C Nussbaum (eds.) Language and Logos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Barnes, Jonathan [1982] Medicine, Experience and Logic, in J Barnes, J Brunschwig, M F Burnyeat & M Schofield (eds.) Science and Speculation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rolf, Bertil [1982] 'Russell's Theses on Vagueness', History and Philosophy of Logic 3, pp. 69-83.
Heijenoort, J van [1985] Frege and Vagueness, in Haaparanta, L & Hintikka, K J J (eds.) Frege Synthesized, Dordrecht: Reidel.
Hookway, Chris [1985] Peirce, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Hookway, Chris [1990] Vagueness, Logic and Interpretation, in The Analytic Tradition. Meaning, Thought and Knowledge, edited by D. Bell and N. Cooper, Oxford: Blackwell.
Mignucci, Mario [1993] 'The Stoic Analysis of the Sorites', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93, pp. 231.
Williamson, Timothy [1994] Vagueness, London: Routledge.
Barnard, Robert [1997] 'Russell on Vagueness', Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly 95, pp. 8-11.
Hyde, Dominic [2000] 'Recent Work on Vagueness', Philosophical Books 41, pp. 1-13.
Colyvan, Mark [2001] 'Russell on Metaphysical Vagueness', Principia 5, pp. 87-98. [abstract]
Bobzien, Susanne [2002] 'Chrysippus and the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102, pp. 217-38. [abstract]
Levey, Samuel [2002] 'Leibniz and the Sorites', The Leibniz Review 12, pp. .

Many-valued, degree-theoretic and fuzzy logic

Waismann, Friedrich [1945/6] 'Are There Alternative Logics?', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 46, pp. 77-104.
Halldén, S [1949] The Logic of Nonsense, Uppsala: Uppsala Universitets Arsskrift.
Åqvist, L [1962] 'Reflections on the Logic of Nonsense', Theoria 28, pp. 138-57.
Segerberg, K [1965] 'A Contribution to Nonsense-Logics', Theoria 31, pp. 199-217.
Odegard, D [1965] 'Excluding the Middle from Loose Concepts', Theoria 31, pp. 138-44.
Zadeh, Lotfi [1965] 'Fuzzy Sets', Information and Control 8, pp. 338-53.
Goguen, J A [1969] 'The Logic of Inexact Concepts', Synthèse 19, pp. 325-73.
Cleave, J P [1970] 'The Notion of Validity in Logical Systems With Inexact Predicates', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 21, pp. 269-74.
Verma, R R [1970] 'Vagueness and the Principle of Excluded Middle', Mind 79, pp. .
Sanford, David H [1975] 'Borderline Logic', American Philosophical Quarterly 12, pp. 29-40.
Sanford, David H [1976] 'Competing Semantics of Vagueness: Many Values Versus Super-Truth', Synthèse 33, pp. 195-210.
Machina, Kenton [1976] 'Truth, Belief and Vagueness', Journal of Philosophical Logic 5, pp. 47-78.
Morgan, C G & Pelletier, J F [1977] 'Some Notes Concerning Fuzzy Logics', Linguistics and Philosophy 1, pp. 79-97.
Haack, Susan [1979] 'Do we need "fuzzy logic"?', International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 11, pp. 437-45.
Putnam, Hilary [1983] 'Vagueness and Alternative Logic', Erkenntnis 19, pp. 297-314.
Putnam, Hilary [1985] 'A Quick Read is a Wrong Wright', Analysis 45, pp. 203.
Read, Stephen & Wright, Crispin [1985] 'Hairier Than Putnam Thought', Analysis 45, pp. 56-8.
Wright, Crispin [1987] 'Further Reflections on the Sorites Paradox', Philosophical Topics 15, pp. 227-90.
Schwartz, Stephen P [1987] 'Intuitionism and Sorites', Analysis 47, pp. 179-83.
Burgess, J A & Humberstone, I L [1987] 'Natural Deduction Rules for a Logic of Vagueness', Erkenntnis 27, pp. 197-229.
Sainsbury, Mark [1988-9] 'Tolerating Vagueness', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89, pp. 33-48.
Rea, G [1989] 'Degrees of Truth Versus Intuitionism', Analysis 49, pp. 31-2.
Sayward, Charles [1989] 'Does the Law of Excluded Middle Require Bivalence?', Erkenntnis 31, pp. 129-37.
Tye, Michael [1989] 'Supervaluationism and the Law of Excluded Middle', Analysis 49, pp. 141-3.
Schwartz, Stephen P [1990] 'Intuitionism Versus Degrees of Truth', Analysis 50, pp. 43-7.
Schwartz, Stephen P & Throop, W [1991] 'Intuitionism and Vagueness', Erkenntnis 34, pp. 347-56.
Putnam, Hilary [1991] 'Replies and Comments', Erkenntnis 34, pp. 401-24.
Kosko, Bart [1993] Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic, London: HarperCollinsPublishers.
Mott, Peter L [1994] 'On the Intuitionistic Solution of the Sorites Paradox', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 75, pp. 133-50.
Tye, Michael [1994] Sorites Paradoxes and the Semantics of Vagueness, in Tomberlin, J (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives: Logic and Language. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview; reprinted in Keefe & Smith [1996].
Williamson, Timothy [1994] Vagueness, London: Routledge.
Copeland, Jack [1994] 'Vagueness and Bivalence: A Discussion of Williamson and Simons', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 68, pp. 193-200.
Simons, Peter [1995] 'Multivalence and Vagueness: A Reply to Copeland', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 95, pp. 201.
Copeland, Jack [1995] 'On Vague Objects, Fuzzy Logic and Fractal Boundaries', Southern Journal of Philosophy 33, pp. 83-96.
Haack, Susan [1996] Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Williamson, Timothy [1996] 'Putnam on the Sorites Paradox', Philosophical Papers 25, pp. 47.
Edgington, Dorothy [1996] Vagueness by Degrees, in Keefe & Smith [1996].
Hyde, Dominic [1997] 'From Heaps and Gaps to Heaps of Gluts', Mind 106, pp. 641-60. [abstract]
Copeland, Jack [1997] 'Fuzzy Logic and Vague Identity', Journal of Philosophy 94, pp. 514-34. [abstract]
Simons, Peter [1997] Vagueness, Many-Valued Logic, and Probability, in W Lenzen (ed.) Das weite Spektrum der Analytischen Philosophie, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Tzouvaras, A [1998] 'Modeling Vagueness by Nonstandardness', Fuzzy Sets and Systems 94, pp. 385.
Chambers, Timothy [1998] 'On Vagueness, Sorites, and Putnam's "Intuitionistic Strategy"', Monist 81, pp. 343-8.
Keefe, Rosanna [1998] 'Vagueness by Numbers', Mind 107, pp. 565-80. [abstract]
Sypniewska, J O [1999] 'Heaps and gluts: paraconsistent logic applied to vagueness', Logic and Logical Philosophy 7, pp. 179-93.
Everett, Anthony [2000] 'A Simple Logic for Comparisons and Vagueness', Synthèse 123, pp. 263-8. [abstract]
Fisher, Pete [2000] 'Sorites paradox and vague geographies', Fuzzy Sets and Systems 113, pp. 7-18. [abstract]
Keefe, Rosanna [2000] Theories of Vagueness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [abstract]
Hyde, Dominic [2001] 'A Reply to Beall and Colyvan', Mind 110, pp. 409-11.
Beall, J C & Colyvan, Mark [2001] 'Heaps of Gluts and Hyde-ing the Sorites', Mind 110, pp. 401-8.
Beall, J C & Colyvan, Mark [2001] 'Looking for Contradictions', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79, pp. 564-9. [abstract]
Wright, Crispin [2001] 'On being in a quandary. Relativism vagueness logical revisionism', Mind 110, pp. 45-98. [abstract]
Van Bendegem, Jean Paul [2001] 'Paraconsistency And Dialogue Logic: Critical Examination And Further Explorations', Synthèse 127, pp. 35-55. [abstract]
Weatherson, Brian [2002] 'True, Truer, Truest', , pp. . [abstract]
Cook, Roy [2002] 'Vagueness and Mathematical Precision', Mind 111, pp. 225-48. [abstract]
Field, Hartry [2003?] 'No Fact of the Matter', Australasian Journal of Philosophy , pp. .
Paoli, Francesco [2003] 'A Really Fuzzy Approach to the Sorites Paradox', Synthèse 134, pp. 363-87.
Varzi, Achille [2003] Cut-offs and their Neighbors, in J. C. Beall (ed.) Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wright, Crispin [2003] 'Rosenkranz on Quandary, Vagueness and Intuitionism', Mind 112, pp. 465-74.
Smith, Nicholas J J [2003] 'Vagueness by Numbers? No Worries', Mind 112, pp. 283-90. [abstract]
Wright, Crispin [2003] Vagueness: A Fifth Column Approach, in Beall and Glanzberg, eds., Liars and Heaps, Oxford University Press.
Rosenkranz, Sven [2003] 'Wright on Vagueness and Agnosticism', Mind 112, pp. 449-64.

Supervaluationism and the Problem of the Many

van Fraassen, B C [1969] Presuppositions, Supervaluations and Free Logic, in K Lambert (ed.) The Logical Way of Doing Things, pp. 67-91, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Lewis, David [1975] Language and Languages, in Lewis [1983], pp. 163-88.
Kamp, Hans [1975] Two Theories About Adjectives, in Keenan, E L (ed.) Formal Semantics of Natural Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fine, Kit [1975] 'Vagueness, Truth and Logic', Synthèse 30, pp. 265-300.
Sanford, David H [1976] 'Competing Semantics of Vagueness: Many Values Versus Super-Truth', Synthèse 33, pp. 195-210.
Lewis, David [1979] Scorekeeping in a Language Game, in Lewis [1983]; reprinted from Journal of Philosophical Logic 8, pp.339-59.
Unger, Peter [1980] The Problem of the Many, in French et al. [1980], pp. 411-67.
Ballweg, Joachim [1983] Vagueness or context-dependence? Supervaluation revisited in a semantics based on scales, in Thomas T. Ballmer and Manfred Pinkal (eds), Approaching Vagueness, North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 59–78.
Tye, Michael [1989] 'Supervaluationism and the Law of Excluded Middle', Analysis 49, pp. 141-3.
Rasmussen, Stig A [1990] 'Supervaluational Antirealism and Logic', Synthèse 84, pp. .
Lewis, David [1993] Many, but almost one, in K. Campbell, J. Bacon and L. Reinhardt (eds.) Ontology, Causality, and Mind: Essays on the Philosophy of D. M. Armstrong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 23-38.
Sanford, David H [1993] 'The Problem of the Many, Many Composition Questions, and Naive Mereology', Noûs 27, pp. 219-28.
Koons, R C [1994] 'A New Solution to the Sorites Problem', Mind 103, pp. 439.
Field, Hartry [1994] 'Disquotational truth and factually defective discourse', Philosophical Review 103, pp. 405–52.
Williamson, Timothy [1994] Vagueness, London: Routledge.
Williamson, Timothy [1995] 'Definiteness and Knowability', Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement) 33, pp. .
McGee, Van & McLaughlin, Brian P [1995] 'Distinctions Without a Difference', Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement) 33, pp. 203-51.
Lowe, E J [1995] 'The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Constitution', Analysis 55, pp. 179.
Mills, A P [1995] 'Unsettled Problems with Vague Truth', Canadian Journal of Philosophy 25, pp. .
Fodor, Jerry & Lepore, Ernest [1996] 'What Cannot be Evaluated Cannot be Evaluated, and it Cannot be Supervalued Either', Journal of Philosophy 93, pp. 516-35.
Horgan, Terence [1997] 'Brute Supervenience, Deep Ignorance, and the Problem of the Many', Philosophical Issues 8, pp. 229-36. [abstract]
Hyde, Dominic [1997] 'From Heaps and Gaps to Heaps of Gluts', Mind 106, pp. 641-60. [abstract]
Markosian, Ned [1998] 'Brutal Composition', Philosophical Studies 92, pp. 211-49.
Schiffer, Stephen [1998] 'Two Issues of Vagueness', Monist 81, pp. 193-214.
Ujvári, Márta [1999] 'Multi-criteria Predicates and Supervaluation', Acta Analytica 14, pp. . [abstract]
Akiba, Ken [1999] 'On super- and subvaluationism: a classicist's reply to Hyde', Mind 108, pp. 727-732.
Morreau, Michael [1999] 'Supervaluation can leave truth-value gaps after all', Journal of Philosophy 96, pp. 148-56.
Varzi, Achille [2000] Supervaluationism and Paraconsistency, in Diderik Batens, Chris Mortensen, Graham Priest, and Jean Paul Van Bendegem (eds.), Frontiers in Paraconsistent Logic, Baldock: Research Studies Press, pp. 279-297. [abstract]
Keefe, Rosanna [2000] Theories of Vagueness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [abstract]
Hudson, Hud [2000] 'Universalism, Four Dimensionalism, and Vagueness', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60, pp. 547-60.
Schiffer, Stephen [2000] Vagueness and Partial Belief, in Ernest Sosa, ed., Skepticism: Philosophical Issues, 10 Sosa, Ernest (ed), Cambridge, Blackwell.
Akiba, Ken [2000] 'Vagueness as a modality', Philosophical Quarterly 50, pp. 359-70. [abstract]
Hyde, Dominic [2001] 'A Reply to Beall and Colyvan', Mind 110, pp. 409-11.
Smith, Barry & Brogaard, Berit [2001] 'A Unified Theory of Truth and Reference', Logique et Analyse , pp. . [abstract]
Beall, J C & Colyvan, Mark [2001] 'Heaps of Gluts and Hyde-ing the Sorites', Mind 110, pp. 401-8.
Eklund, Matti [2001] 'Supervaluationism, Vagueifiers and Semantic Overdetermination', Dialectica 55, pp. 363-78.
Varzi, Achille [2001] 'Vagueness, Logic, and Ontology', The Dialogue 1, pp. 135-54.
Akiba, Ken [2002] 'A deflationist approach to indeterminacy and vagueness', Philosophical Studies 107, pp. 69-86. [abstract]
Sorensen, Roy A [2002] 'Direct Reference and Vague Identity', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 177-92.
Williamson, Timothy [2002] 'Horgan on Vagueness', Grazer Philosophische Studien 63, pp. 273-85. [abstract]
Keefe, Rosanna [2002] 'Supervaluationism and Validity', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 93-106.
McKinnon, Neil [2002] 'Supervaluations and the Problem of the Many', Philosophical Quarterly 52, pp. 320-39. [abstract]
McGee, Van & McLaughlin, Brian P [2002] 'The Lessons of the Many', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 129-51.
Varzi, Achille & Collins, John [2002] 'Unsharpenable Vagueness', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 1-10. [abstract]
McKinnon, Neil [2003?] 'Persistence and a New Problem of the Many', (in progress) , pp. .
Sider, Theodore & Braun, David [2003?] 'Vague, So Untrue', (in progress) , pp. . [abstract]
Graff, Delia [2003] Gap Principles, Penumbral Consequence, and Infinitely Higher-Order Vagueness, in Liars and Heaps: New Essays on the Semantics of Paradox, J.C. Beall (editor), Oxford University Press.
Weatherson, Brian [2003] 'Many Many Problems', Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming) , pp. . [abstract]
Weatherson, Brian [2003] The Problem of the Many, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2003 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).

Nihilism, perception and coherence

Goodman, Nelson [1951] The Structure of Appearance, Third Edition, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1997.
Jackson, F C & Pinkerton, R J [1973] 'On an Argument Against Sensory Items', Mind 82, pp. 269­72.
Wright, Crispin [1975] 'On the Coherence of Vague Predicates', Synthèse 30, pp. 325-63.
Dummett, Michael [1975] Wang's Paradox, in Truth and Other Enigmas, London: Duckworth, 1978, pp. 248-68; and Keefe & Smith [1996]; reprinted from Synthèse 30, pp. 301-24.
Wright, Crispin [1976] Language Mastery and the Sorites Paradox, in Evans & McDowell [1976], pp. 223-47.
Unger, Peter [1979] I Do Not Exist, in MacDonald, G F (ed.) Perception and Identity, London: Macmillan, pp. 235-51.
Sanford, David H [1979] 'Nostalgia for the Ordinary: Comments on Papers By Unger and Wheeler', Synthèse 41, pp. 175-84.
Wheeler, S C, III [1979] 'On That Which Is Not', Synthèse 41, pp. 155-94.
Unger, Peter [1979] 'There Are No Ordinary Things', Synthèse 41, pp. 117-54.
Platts, Mark de B [1979] Ways of Meaning: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Unger, Peter [1979] Why There are No People, in French et al. [1979], pp. 177-222.
Rolf, Bertil [1980] 'A Theory of Vagueness', Journal of Philosophical Logic 9, pp. 315-25.
Peacocke, Christopher [1981] 'Are Vague Predicates Incoherent?', Synthèse 46, pp. 121-41.
Quine, W V O [1981] 'What Price Bivalence?', Journal of Philosophy 78, pp. 90-5.
Rolf, Bertil [1984] 'Sorites', Synthèse 58, pp. 219-50.
Travis, Charles [1985] 'Vagueness, Observation and Sorites', Mind 94, pp. 345-66.
Burns, Lynda C [1986] 'Vagueness and Coherence', Synthèse 68, pp. 487-513.
Wright, Crispin [1987] 'Further Reflections on the Sorites Paradox', Philosophical Topics 15, pp. 227-90.
Hardin, C L [1988] 'Phenomenal Colors and Sorites', Noûs 22, pp. 213-34.
Sainsbury, Mark [1988-9] 'Tolerating Vagueness', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89, pp. 33-48.
Schwartz, Stephen P [1989] 'Vagueness and Incoherence: A Reply to Burns', Synthèse 80, pp. 395-406.
Burgess, John Alexander [1990] 'Phenomenal Qualities and the Nontransitivity of Matching', Australasian Journal of Philosophy , pp. .
Wright, Crispin [1991] The Sorites Paradox and Its Significance for the Interpretation of Semantic Theory, in Cooper & Engel [1991], pp. 135-62.
Burns, Lynda C [1991] Vagueness: an Investigation Into Natural Language and the Sorites Paradox, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [abstract]
Sanford, David H [1993] 'Review of Linda Burns: Vagueness: An Investigation Into Natural Languages and the Sorites Paradox', Mind 102, pp. 357-60.
Williamson, Timothy [1994] Vagueness, London: Routledge.
Varzi, Achille [1995] 'Vagueness, Indiscernibility, and Pragmatics: Comments on Burns', Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement) 33, pp. 49-62.
Everett, Anthony [1996] 'Qualia and Vagueness', Synthèse 106, pp. 205-26. [abstract]
Horgan, Terence [1998] 'The Transvaluationist Conception of Vagueness', Monist 81, pp. 316-33. [abstract]
Beall, J C & Colyvan, Mark [2001] 'Looking for Contradictions', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79, pp. 564-9. [abstract]
Graff, Delia [2001] 'Phenomenal Continua and the Sorites', Mind 110, pp. 905-35. [abstract]
Mills, Eugene [2002] 'Fallibility and the Phenomenal Sorites', Nous 36, pp. 384-407.
Raffman, Diana [2002] 'Is Perceptual Indiscriminability Nontransitive?', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 153-76.
Sider, Theodore & Braun, David [2003?] 'Vague, So Untrue', (in progress) , pp. . [abstract]
Eklund, Matti [2003?] 'What Vagueness Consists In', (in progress) , pp. . [abstract]
Alter, Torin & Rachels, Stuart [2004] 'Epistemicism and the Combined Spectrum Argument', Ratio 17, pp. . [abstract]

Epistemicism

Cargile, James [1969] 'The Sorites Paradox', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 20, pp. 193-202.
Campbell, Richmond [1974] 'The Sorites Paradox', Philosophical Studies 26, pp. 175-91.
Scheffler, Israel [1979] Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Metaphor in Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Rolf, Bertil [1984] 'Sorites', Synthèse 58, pp. 219-50.
Sorensen, Roy A [1988] Blindspots, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Sorensen, Roy A [1988] 'Vagueness, Blurriness, and Measurement', Synthèse 75, pp. 45-82. [abstract]
Heller, Mark [1990] The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Simons, Peter [1992] 'Vagueness and Ignorance', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 63, pp. 163-77.
Williamson, Timothy [1992] 'Vagueness and Ignorance', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 66, pp. 145-62.
Williamson, Timothy [1994] Vagueness, London: Routledge.
Copeland, Jack [1994] 'Vagueness and Bivalence: A Discussion of Williamson and Simons', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 68, pp. 193-200.
Williamson, Timothy [1995] 'Definiteness and Knowability', Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement) 33, pp. .
Hyde, Dominic [1995] 'Review of T Williamson: Vagueness', Mind 104, pp. 919-25.
Wright, Crispin [1995] 'The Epistemic Conception of Vagueness', Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement) 33, pp. 133-59.
Sorensen, Roy A [1995] 'The Epistemic Conception of Vagueness: Comments on Wright', Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement) 33, pp. 161-70.
Sainsbury, Mark [1995] 'Vagueness, Ignorance and Margin for Error (Critical Notice of Timothy Williamson: Vagueness)', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46, pp. 589-601.
Simons, Peter [1996] 'Critical Notice of Timothy Williamson, Vagueness', International Journal of Philosophical Studies , pp. 321-7.
Williamson, Timothy [1996] 'What Makes it a Heap?', Erkenntnis 44, pp. 327-39.
Williamson, Timothy [1996] 'Wright on the Epistemic Conception of Vagueness', Analysis 56, pp. 39.
Horgan, Terence [1997] 'Brute Supervenience, Deep Ignorance, and the Problem of the Many', Philosophical Issues 8, pp. 229-36. [abstract]
Williamson, Timothy [1997] Imagination, Stipulation and Vagueness, in Villanueva, E (ed.) Philosophical Issues: Truth, Atascadero: Ridgeview.
Sorensen, Roy A [1997] 'Sharp Boundaries for Blobs', Philosophical Studies 91, pp. 275-95.
Horwich, Paul [1997] 'The Nature of Vagueness', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57, pp. 929-36.
Gómez-Torrente, Mario [1997] Two Problems for an Epistemicist View of Vagueness, in E. Villanueva (ed.), Philosophical Issues VIII: Truth, Ridgeview, Atascadero (California), 1997.
Mott, Peter L [1998] 'Margins for Error and the Sorites Paradox', Philosophical Quarterly 48, pp. 494-504. [abstract]
Williamson, Timothy [1999] 'Andjelkoviæ on Bivalence: A Reply', Acta Analytica 14, pp. . [abstract]
Williamson, Timothy [1999] Schiffer on the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness, in J Tomberlin (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives 13: Epistemology, Oxford and Boston, MA: Blackwell.
Schiffer, Stephen [1999] The Epistemic Theory of Vagueness (with reply by Williamson), in J Tomberlin (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives 13: Epistemology, Oxford and Boston, MA: Blackwell.
Andjelkovic, Miroslava [1999] 'Williamson on Bivalence', Acta Analytica 14, pp. . [abstract]
Sorensen, Roy A [2000] 'A Vague Demonstration', Linguistics and Philosophy 23, pp. 507-22.
Elder, Crawford L [2000] 'Familiar Objects and the Sorites of Decomposition', American Philosophical Quarterly 37, pp. 79-89. [abstract]
Field, Hartry [2000] 'Indeterminacy, Degree of Belief, and Excluded Middle', Noûs 34, pp. 1-30.
Williamson, Timothy [2000] Knowledge and Its Limits, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [abstract]
Williamson, Timothy [2000] 'Margins for Error: A Reply to Mott', Philosophical Quarterly 50, pp. 76-81. [abstract]
Keefe, Rosanna [2000] Theories of Vagueness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [abstract]
Wright, Crispin [2001] 'On being in a quandary. Relativism vagueness logical revisionism', Mind 110, pp. 45-98. [abstract]
Sorensen, Roy A [2001] Vagueness and Contradiction, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [abstract]
Burgess, John Alexander [2001] 'Vagueness, Epistemicism and Response-Dependence', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79, pp. 507-24.
Williamson, Timothy [2001] 'Vagueness, indeterminacy and social meaning', Critical Studies 16, pp. 61-76. [abstract]
Ebbs, Gary [2001] 'Vagueness, Sharp Boundaries, and Supervenience Conditions', Synthèse 127, pp. 303-23.
Graff, Delia [2002] 'An Anti-Epistemicist Consequence of Margin for Error Semantics for Knowledge', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64, pp. 127-42. [abstract]
Bobzien, Susanne [2002] 'Chrysippus and the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102, pp. 217-38. [abstract]
Williamson, Timothy [2002] 'Epistemicist models: Comments on Gómez-Torrente and Graff', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64, pp. 143-50.
Jackson, Frank [2002] 'Language, Thought and the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness', Language and Communication 22, pp. 269-79. [abstract]
Beall, J C [2002] 'Review of Roy Sorensen, Vagueness and Contradiction', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 8, pp. .
Gómez-Torrente, Mario [2002] 'Vagueness and Margin for Error Principles', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64, pp. 107-26.
Ludwig, Kirk & Ray, Greg [2002] 'Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox', Philosophical Perspectives (Nous) 16, pp. 419-61. [abstract]
Dorr, Cian [2003?] 'Vagueness Without Ignorance', (in draft) , pp. . [abstract]
Ray, Greg [2003?] 'Williamson's Master Argument on Vagueness', Synthèse (forthcoming) , pp. . [abstract]
Weatherson, Brian [2003] 'Epistemicism, Parasites and Vague Names', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81, pp. 276-79. [abstract]
Weatherson, Brian [2003] 'Review of Vagueness and Contradiction, by Roy Sorensen', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81, pp. 290-2.
Wright, Crispin [2003] 'Rosenkranz on Quandary, Vagueness and Intuitionism', Mind 112, pp. 465-74.
Greenough, Patrick [2003] 'Vagueness: A Minimal Theory', Mind 112, pp. 235-81. [abstract]
Rosenkranz, Sven [2003] 'Wright on Vagueness and Agnosticism', Mind 112, pp. 449-64.
Alter, Torin & Rachels, Stuart [2004] 'Epistemicism and the Combined Spectrum Argument', Ratio 17, pp. . [abstract]

Contextualism

Kamp, Hans [1981] The Paradox of the Heap, in Mönnich, U (ed.) Aspects of Philosophical Logic, Dordrecht: Reidel, pp. 225-77.
Bosch, P [1983] "Vagueness" is Context-Dependent, in Ballmer & Pinkal [1983].
Ballweg, Joachim [1983] Vagueness or context-dependence? Supervaluation revisited in a semantics based on scales, in Thomas T. Ballmer and Manfred Pinkal (eds), Approaching Vagueness, North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 59–78.
Pinkal, Manfred [1984] Consistency and Context Change: The Sorites Paradox, in Landman, F & Veltman, F (eds.) Varieties of Formal Semantics, Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
Sainsbury, Mark [1990] Concepts Without Boundaries, in inaugural lecture, Department of Philosophy, King's College, London; reprinted in Keefe & Smith [1996].
Tappenden, Jamie [1993] 'The Liar and Sorites Paradoxes; Toward a Unified Treatment', Journal of Philosophy 90, pp. 551.
Raffman, Diana [1994] 'Vagueness Without Paradox', Philosophical Review 103, pp. 41-74.
Raffman, Diana [1995] 'Commentary on Terence Horgan's "Transvaluationism"', Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement) 33, pp. .
Horgan, Terence [1995] 'Transvaluationism: a Dionysian Approach to Vagueness', Southern Journal of Philosophy 33, pp. . [abstract]
van Deemter, Kees [1996] The Sorites Fallacy and the Context-Dependence of Vague Predicates, in Quantifiers, Deduction, and Context, ed. Makoto Kanazawa, Christopher Piñon, and Henriëttede Swart.
Raffman, Diana [1996] 'Vagueness and Context-Relativity', Philosophical Studies 81, pp. 175-92.
Sorensen, Roy A [1998] 'Ambiguity, Discretion and the Sorites', Monist 81, pp. 217-35.
Soames, Scott [1999] Understanding Truth, New York: Oxford University Press. [abstract]
Kyburg, Alice & Morreau, Michael [2000] 'Fitting Words: vague language in context', Linguistics and Philosophy 23, pp. 577-97.
Robertson, Teresa [2000] 'On Soames's solution to the sorites paradox', Analysis 60, pp. 328-34.
Gross, Steven A [2000] Vagueness in Context, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Scociety, eds. Lila Gleitman and Avarind Joshi (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000).
Gross, Steven A [2001] Essays on Linguistic Context-Sensitivity and its Philosophical Significance, Routledge. [abstract]
Graff, Delia [2002] 'Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 45-81. [abstract]
Williamson, Timothy [2002] 'Soames on Vagueness', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65, pp. 422-8.
Gross, Steven A [2003?] 'A Pragmatic, Context-Sensitive Approach to Vagueness', (in progress) , pp. .
Van Kerkhove, Bart [2003?] Vagueness Unlimited: In Defence of a Pragmatical Approach to Sorites Paradoxes, in Logic and Logical Philosophy (Proceedings of the 2nd Flemish-Polish Workshop on the Ontological Foundations of Paraconsistency). [abstract]
Gross, Steven A [2003?] Vagueness, Indirect Speech, and the World, in Protosociology: Special Issue on Indirect Speech and Radical Interpretation, ed. Gerhard Preyer (forthcoming).
Stanley, Jason [2003] 'Context, Interest-Relativity, and the Sorites', Analysis (forthcoming) , pp. .

Vague objects and vague identity

Evans, Gareth [1978] Can There be Vague Objects?, in Evans [1985], pp. 176-7; reprinted from Analysis 38, p. 208.
Noonan, Harold [1980] Objects and Identity, Martinus Nijhoff.
Thomason, Richmond [1982] 'Identity and Vagueness', Philosophical Studies 43, pp. 329-32.
Noonan, Harold [1982] 'Vague Objects', Analysis 42, pp. 3-6.
Zemach, Eddy [1983] 'Identity and Open Texture', Philosophia 13, pp. .
Noonan, Harold [1984] 'Indefinite Identity: A Reply to Broome', Analysis 44, pp. 117-21.
Broome, John [1984] 'Indefiniteness in Identity', Analysis 44, pp. 6-12.
Linsky, B [1984] 'The Identity of Indistinguishables', Synthèse 59, pp. 363-80.
Ward, D [1984] 'The Indeterminacy of Identity Conditions', Southern Journal of Philosophy 22, pp. .
Cook, Monte [1986] 'Indeterminacy of Identity', Analysis 46, pp. 179-86.
Wiggins, David [1986] On Singling Out an Object Determinately, in Pettit, P & McDowell, J H (eds.) Subject, Thought and Context, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Rasmussen, Stig A [1986] 'Vague Identity', Mind 95, pp. 81-91.
Parsons, Terence [1987] 'Entities Without Identity', Philosophical Perspectives 1, pp. 1-19.
Inwagen, Peter van [1988] 'How to Reason About Vague Objects', Philosophical Topics 16, pp. 255-84.
Stalnaker, Robert [1988] Vague Identity, in Austin, D F (ed.) Philosophical Analysis: A Defence by Examples, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Lewis, David [1988] 'Vague Identity: Evans Misunderstood', Analysis 48, pp. 128-30.
Garrett, Brian J [1988] 'Vagueness and Identity', Analysis 48, pp. 130-4.
Pelletier, F J [1989] 'Another Argument Against Vague Objects', Journal of Philosophy 86, pp. 481-92.
Johnsen, B [1989] 'Is Vague Identity Incoherent', Analysis 49, pp. 103-12.
Burgess, John Alexander [1989] 'Vague Identity: Evans Misrepresented', Analysis 49, pp. 112-9.
Over, D E [1989] 'Vague Objects and Identity', Analysis 49, pp. 97-9.
Sainsbury, Mark [1989] 'What is a Vague Object?', Analysis 49, pp. 99-103.
Noonan, Harold [1990] 'Vague Identity Yet Again', Analysis 50, pp. 157-62.
Tye, Michael [1990] 'Vague Objects', Mind 99, pp. 535-57.
Burgess, John Alexander [1990] 'Vague Objects and Indefinite Identity', Philosophical Studies 59, pp. 263-87.
Howard-Snyder, F [1991] 'De re modality Entails de re Vagueness', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 72, pp. 101-12.
Priest, Graham [1991] 'Sorites and Identity', Logique et Analyse 135, pp. 293.
Garrett, Brian J [1991] 'Vague Identity and Vague Objects', Noûs 25, pp. 341-51.
Zemach, Eddy [1991] 'Vague Objects', Noûs 25, pp. 323-40.
Cowles, D W & White, M J [1991] 'Vague Objects for Those Who Want Them', Philosophical Studies 63, pp. 203-16.
Garrett, Brian J [1991] 'Vagueness, Identity, and the World', Logique et analyse 135, pp. 349.
Cowles, D W [1994] On van Inwagen's Defense of Vague Identity, in Philosophical Perspectives 8: Logic and Language, ed. J E Tomberlin, Atascadero: Ridgeview.
Lowe, E J [1994] 'Vague Identity and Quantum Indeterminacy', Analysis 54, pp. 110-4.
Williamson, Timothy [1994] Vagueness, London: Routledge.
Keefe, Rosanna [1995] 'Contingent Identity and Vague Identity', Analysis 55, pp. 183-90.
Noonan, Harold [1995] 'E J Lowe on Vague Identity and Quantum Indeterminacy', Analysis 55, pp. .
Copeland, Jack [1995] 'On Vague Objects, Fuzzy Logic and Fractal Boundaries', Southern Journal of Philosophy 33, pp. 83-96.
French, S & Krause, D [1995] 'Vague identity and quantum indeterminacy', Analysis 55, pp. 20-6.
Sainsbury, Mark [1995] 'Why the World Could Not be Vague', Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement) 33, pp. 63-81.
Parsons, Terence & Woodruff, Peter [1995] 'Worldly Indeterminacy of Identity', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 95, pp. 171-91; reprinted in Keefe & Smith [1996].
Parsons, Terence & Woodruff, Peter [1996] 'Indeterminacy of Identity of Objects and Sets', Philosophical Perspectives , pp. .
Copeland, Jack [1997] 'Fuzzy Logic and Vague Identity', Journal of Philosophy 94, pp. 514-34. [abstract]
Priest, Graham [1998] 'Fuzzy Identity and Local Validity', Monist 81, pp. .
Heck Jr., Richard G [1998] 'That There Might be Vague Objects (So Far As Concerns Logic)', Monist 81, pp. .
Prinz, Jesse [1998] 'Vagueness, Language, and Ontology', Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 6, pp. . [abstract]
Simons, Peter [1999] Does the Sun Exist? The Problem of Vague Objects, in Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume II: Metaphysics, ed. Tom Rockmore..
Torrago, Loretta [1999] Vagueness and Identity, in Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume II: Metaphysics, ed. Tom Rockmore.. [abstract]
Akiba, Ken [2000] 'Indefiniteness of mathematical objects', Philosophia Mathematica 8, pp. 26-46. [abstract]
Parsons, Terence [2000] Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. [abstract]
Markosian, Ned [2000] 'Sorensen's Argument Against Vague Identities', Philosophical Studies 97, pp. 1-9.
Fisher, Pete [2000] 'Sorites paradox and vague geographies', Fuzzy Sets and Systems 113, pp. 7-18. [abstract]
Akiba, Ken [2000] 'Vagueness as a modality', Philosophical Quarterly 50, pp. 359-70. [abstract]
Sypniewska, J O [2001] 'Quantum indiscernibility without vague identity', Analysis 61, pp. 65-8.
Varzi, Achille [2001] 'Vagueness in Geography', Philosophy & Geography 4, pp. 49-65. [abstract]
Williamson, Timothy [2001] Vagueness, identity and Leibniz’s Law, in P. Giaretta, A. Bottani and M. Carrara, eds., Individuals, Essence and Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics, Dordrecht: Kluwer (Topoi Library).
Varzi, Achille [2001] 'Vagueness, Logic, and Ontology', The Dialogue 1, pp. 135-54.
Merricks, Trenton [2001] 'Varieties of Vagueness', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62, pp. 145-57.
Akiba, Ken [2002] 'A deflationist approach to indeterminacy and vagueness', Philosophical Studies 107, pp. 69-86. [abstract]
Sorensen, Roy A [2002] 'Direct Reference and Vague Identity', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 177-92.
Edgington, Dorothy [2002] 'Indeterminacy de re', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 27-44.
Copeland, Jack [2002] 'Indeterminate Identity, Contingent Identity, and Property Identity, Aristotelian-Style', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 11-23.
Akiba, Ken [2002] 'Review of Terence Parsons, Indeterminate Identity', Philosophical Quarterly 52, pp. 262-5.
Keefe, Rosanna [2002] 'Review of Terence Parsons, Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics', Mind 111, pp. 466-70.
Hawley, Katherine [2002] 'Vagueness and Existence', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102, pp. 125-40. [abstract]
Tye, Michael [2002] 'Vagueness and Reality', Philosophical Topics 28, pp. 195-210.
Morreau, Michael [2002] 'What Vague Objects Are Like', Journal of Philosophy 99, pp. 333-61. [abstract]
Torrago, Loretta [2003?] 'Vague Identity and Vague Composition', (in progress) , pp. .
Sider, Theodore [2003] 'Against Vague Existence', Philosophical Studies 114, pp. 135-46.
Pinillos, Ángel [2003] 'Counting and Indeterminate Identity', Mind 112, pp. 35-50. [abstract]
Varzi, Achille [2003] 'Indeterminate Identities and Semantic Indeterminacy', written for the conference The Philosophy of Terence Parsons: Logic, Metaphysics, and Natural Language (The Ernan McMullin Perspectives Lectures in Philosophy 2003), University of Notre Dame , pp. .
French, S & Krause, D [2003] 'Quantum vagueness', Erkenntnis 59, pp. 97-124. [abstract]
Koslicki, Kathrin [2003] 'The Crooked Path from Vagueness to Four-Dimensionalism', Philosophical Studies 114, pp. 107-34.
McKinnon, Neil [2003] 'Vague simples', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming) , pp. . [abstract]
Elder, Crawford L [2004] Real Natures and Familiar Objects, M.I.T. Press/Bradford Books. [abstract]
Rosen, G & Smith, Nicholas J J [2004] 'Worldly Indeterminacy: A Rough Guide', Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming) , pp. . [abstract]

Vagueness and belief

Machina, Kenton [1976] 'Truth, Belief and Vagueness', Journal of Philosophical Logic 5, pp. 47-78.
Schiffer, Stephen [1998] 'Two Issues of Vagueness', Monist 81, pp. 193-214.
Field, Hartry [2000] 'Indeterminacy, Degree of Belief, and Excluded Middle', Noûs 34, pp. 1-30.
Schiffer, Stephen [2000] Vagueness and Partial Belief, in Ernest Sosa, ed., Skepticism: Philosophical Issues, 10 Sosa, Ernest (ed), Cambridge, Blackwell.
Kyburg, Alice [2000] 'When Vague Sentences Inform: A Model Of Assertability', Synthese 124, pp. 175-92. [abstract]
Sorensen, Roy A [2001] Vagueness and Contradiction, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [abstract]

Higher-order vagueness

Sorensen, Roy A [1985] 'An Argument for the Vagueness of "vague"', Analysis 45, pp. 134-7.
Deas, R [1989] 'Sorensen's Sorites', Analysis 49, pp. 26-31.
Burgess, John Alexander [1990] 'The Sorites Paradox and Higher-Order Vagueness', Synthèse 85, pp. 417-74.
Sainsbury, Mark [1991] 'Is There Higher-Order Vagueness?', Philosophical Quarterly 41, pp. 167-82.
Wright, Crispin [1992] 'Is Higher-Order Vagueness Coherent?', Analysis 52, pp. 129-39.
Heck Jr., Richard G [1993] 'A Note on the Logic of (Higher-Order) Vagueness', Analysis 53, pp. 201.
Edgington, Dorothy [1993] 'Wright and Sainsbury on Higher-Order Vagueness', Analysis 53, pp. 193-200.
Koons, R C [1994] 'A New Solution to the Sorites Problem', Mind 103, pp. 439.
Williamson, Timothy [1994] Vagueness, London: Routledge.
Hyde, Dominic [1994] 'Why Higher-Order Vagueness is a Pseudo-Problem', Mind 103, pp. 35-40.
Tye, Michael [1994] 'Why the Vague Need Not be Higher-Order Vague', Mind 103, pp. 43-5.
Burgess, John Alexander [1998] 'In Defense of an Indeterminist Theory of Vagueness', Monist 81, pp. 233-52.
Williamson, Timothy [1999] 'On the structure of higher-order vagueness', Mind 108, pp. 127-142. [abstract]
Keefe, Rosanna [2000] Theories of Vagueness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [abstract]
Graff, Delia [2003] Gap Principles, Penumbral Consequence, and Infinitely Higher-Order Vagueness, in Liars and Heaps: New Essays on the Semantics of Paradox, J.C. Beall (editor), Oxford University Press.
Varzi, Achille [2003] 'Higher-Order Vagueness and the Vagueness of 'Vague'', Mind 112, pp. 295-8. [abstract]
Soames, Scott [2003] Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates, in Liars and Heaps: New Essays on the Semantics of Paradox, J.C. Beall (editor), Oxford University Press.
Hyde, Dominic [2003] 'Higher-Orders of Vagueness Reinstated', Mind 112, pp. 301-5.
Greenough, Patrick [2003] 'Vagueness: A Minimal Theory', Mind 112, pp. 235-81. [abstract]

Psychology and linguistics

Lakoff, George [1973] 'Hedges: A Study in Meanng Criteria and the Logic of Fuzzy Concepts', Journal of Philosophical Logic 2, pp. 458-508.
Rosch, Eleanor H [1973] On the Internal Structure of Perceptual and Semantic Categories, in Moore, T E (ed.) Cognitive Development and the Acquisition of Language, New York: Academic Press.
Rosch, Eleanor H & Mervis, C B [1975] 'Family Resemblances: Studies in the Internal Structure of Categories', Cognitive Psychology 7, pp. 573-605.
Cresswell, M J [1976] The Semantics of Degree, in B Partee (ed.) Montague Grammar, New York: Academic Press.
Chomsky, Noam [1980] Rules and Representations, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Osherson, Daniel & Smith, Edward E [1981] 'On the Adequacy of Prototype Theory as a Theory of Concepts', Cognition 9, pp. 35-58.
Osherson, Daniel & Smith, Edward E [1982] 'Gradedness and Conceptual Combination', Cognition 12, pp. 299-318.
Pinkal, Manfred [1983] On the Limits of Lexical Meaning, in Bäuerle, R et al. (eds.) Meaning, Use and Interpretation, Berlin: de Gruyter.
Pinkal, Manfred [1983] Towards a Semantics of Precization, in Ballmer, T T & Pinkal, M (eds.) Approaching Vagueness, Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Armstrong, S L, Gleitman, L R & Gleitman, H [1983] 'What Some Concepts Might not be', Cognition 13, pp. 263-308.
Stechow, A von [1984] 'Comparing Semantic Theories of Comparison', Journal of Semantics 3, pp. 1-77.
Lakoff, George [1987] Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fuhrmann, G [1988] '"Prototypes" and "Fuzziness" in the Logic of Concepts', Synthèse 75, pp. 317-47.
Fuhrmann, G [1988] 'Fuzziness of Concepts and Concepts of Fuzziness', Synthèse 75, pp. 349-72.
Reisberg, Daniel & Heuer, Friderike [1988] 'Vividness, Vagueness and the Quantification of Visualizing', Journal of Mental Imagery 12, pp. 89.
Channell, Joanna [1994] Vague Language, Oxford University Press. [abstract]
Parikh, Rohit [1994] 'Vagueness and Utility: The Semantics of Common Nouns', Linguistics and Philosophy 17, pp. 521.
Pinkal, Manfred [1995] Logic and Lexicon : The Semantics of the Indefinite (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol 56), Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Kamp, Hans & Partee, Barbara [1995] 'Prototype Theory and Compositionality', Cognition 57, pp. 129-91.
Osherson, Daniel & Smith, Edward E [1997] 'On Typicality and Vagueness', Cognition 64, pp. 189-206.
Bonini, Nicolao, Osherson, Daniel, Viale, Riccardo & Williamson, Timothy [1999] 'On the Psychology of Vague Predicates', Mind & Language 14, pp. 377-93. [abstract]
Polya, T & Tarnay, L [1999] 'Sorites paradox and conscious experience', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, pp. 165.
Changizi, Mark A. [1999] 'Vagueness and Computation: A Theory of Why There is Vagueness', Acta Analytica 14, pp. 39-45. [abstract]
Kyburg, Alice & Morreau, Michael [2000] 'Fitting Words: vague language in context', Linguistics and Philosophy 23, pp. 577-97.
Hampton, James [2000] 'Typicality, graded membership and vagueness', unpublished paper , pp. . [abstract]
ter Hark, Michel [2000] 'Uncertainty, Vagueness And Psychological Indeterminacy', Synthèse 124, pp. 193-220.
Barker, Chris [2002] 'The dynamics of vagueness', Linguistics and Philosophy 25, pp. 1-36. [abstract]
Varzi, Achille [2002] Vagueness, in Lynn Nadel (editor in chief), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, London: Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group.
Changizi, Mark A. [2003] The Brain from 25,000 Feet: High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity, Perception, Innateness and Vagueness, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. [abstract]

Ethical and legal implications

Levin, D S [1985] 'Abortion, Personhood and Vagueness', Journal of Value Inquiry 19, pp. .
Sorensen, Roy A [1986] 'Nozick, Justice and the Sorites', Analysis 46, pp. 102-6.
Fischer, John Martin [1992] 'The Trolley and the Sorites', Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 4, pp. 105.
Cooter, Robert D [1994] 'Introduction: Symposium: Void for Vagueness', California Law Review 82, pp. 487.
Post, Robert C [1994] 'Reconceptualizing Vagueness: Legal Rules And Social Orders', California Law Review 82, pp. 491.
Waldron, Jeremy [1994] 'Vagueness In Law And Language: Some Philosophical Issues', California Law Review 82, pp. 509.
Hadfield, Gillian K [1994] 'Weighing the Value of Vagueness: An Economic Perspective On Precision in the Law', California Law Review 82, pp. 541.
Endicott, Timothy [1997] 'Vagueness and Legal Theory', Legal Theory 3, pp. 37.
Batey, Robert [1997] 'Vagueness and the Construction of Criminal Statutes - Balancing Acts', Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 5, pp. 1.
Kerckhove, Lee F & Waller, Sara [1998] 'Fetal Personhood and the Sorites Paradox', Journal of Value Inquiry 32, pp. 175-89.
Schwartz, Stephen P [1999] 'Why it is Impossible to be Moral', American Philosophical Quarterly 36, pp. 351-60. [abstract]
Woods, J [2000] 'Slippery Slopes and Collapsing Taboos', Argumentation 14, pp. 107-34. [abstract]
Endicott, Timothy [2000] Vagueness in Law, Oxford University Press. [abstract]
Nobis, Nathan [2000] 'Vagueness, Borderline Cases and Moral Realism: Where's the Incompatibility?!?', Philosophical Writings 14, pp. 29-39. [abstract]
Endicott, Timothy [2001] 'Law is Necessarily Vague', Legal Theory 7, pp. 377-83.
Edgington, Dorothy [2001] 'The Philosophical Problem of Vagueness', Legal Theory , pp. .
Sorensen, Roy A [2001] 'Vagueness has no function in law', Legal Theory 7, pp. 385-415.
Sider, Theodore [2002] 'Hell and Vagueness', Faith and Philosophy 19, pp. 58-68.

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