Saving Truth From Paradox by Hartry Field (English) Paperback Book

Description: Saving Truth From Paradox by Hartry Field This is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches. Part One examines Tarskis, Kripkes, and Lukasiewiczs theories of truth, anddiscusses validity and soundness, and vagueness. Part Two considers a wide range of attempts to resolve the paradoxes within classical logic. In Part Three Field turns to non-classical theories of truth that thatrestrict excluded middle. He shows that there are theories of this sort in which the conditionals obey many of the classical laws, and that all the semantic paradoxes (not just the simplest ones) can be handled consistently with the naive theory of truth. In Part Four, these theories are extended to the property-theoretic paradoxes and to various other paradoxes, and some issues about the understanding of the notion of validity are addressed. Extended paradoxes, involving the notion ofdeterminate truth, are treated very thoroughly, and a number of different arguments that the theories lead to "revenge problems" are addressed. Finally, Part Five deals with dialetheic approaches to theparadoxes: approaches which, instead of restricting excluded middle, accept certain contradictions but alter classical logic so as to keep them confined to a relatively remote part of the language. Advocates of dialetheic theories have argued them to be better than theories that restrict excluded middle, for instance over issues related to the incompleteness theorems and in avoiding revenge problems. Field argues that dialetheists claims on behalf of their theories are quite unfounded, andindeed that on some of these issues all current versions of dialetheism do substantially worse than the best theories that restrict excluded middle. Author Biography Hartry Field is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is author of Science Without Numbers (198?), which won the Lakatos/Matchette Prize, and Realism, Mathematics, and Modality (199?). Table of Contents PrefaceIntroductionPART ONE: A Selective Background1: Chapter 1: Self-Reference and Tarski>s Theorem2: Validity and the Unprovability of Soundness3: Kripke>s Theory of Truth (Strong Kleene Version)4: Adding a Conditional? Curry and Lukasiewicz5: Interlude on Vagueness, and the Paradoxes of König and BerryPART TWO: Broadly Classical Approaches6: Introduction to the broadly classical options7: Truth-Value Gaps in Classical Theories8: Truth-value Gluts in Classical Theories9: A Second Interlude on Vagueness10: Introduction to Supervaluational Approaches to Paradox11: A Survey of Supervaluational and Revision-Rule Theories12: Are Supervaluational and Revision Theories Self-Undermining?13: Intersubstitutivity and the Purpose of Truth14: Stratified and Contextual TheoriesStratified and Contextual Theories15: What Is To Be Done?16: Fixed Points and Revision Rules for Conditionals17: More on Revision-theoretic Conditionals18: What Has Been DonePART FOUR: More on Paracomplete Solutions19: Validity, Truth-Preservation and the Second Incompleteness Theorem20: Other Paradoxes21: Do Paracomplete Solutions Depend on Expressive Limitations?22: Determinateness, Hyper-determinateness, Super-Determinateness and RevengePART FIVE: Paraconsistent Dialetheism23: An Introduction to Paraconsistent Dialetheism24: Some Dialetheic Theories25: Paraconsistent Dialetheism and Soundness26: Hyper-determinacy and revengeBibliography Review one of the most impressive works on semantic paradoxes to have appeared in recent years... written with great clarity and meticulous rigour, the difficulty of the issues dealt with... The book, a must-read for everyone interested in semantic paradoxes (or in philosophical logic more generally), develops a highly-sophisticated theory of truth that aims at solving the resilient problems posed by the Liar Paradox... The book is a valuable source of inspiration ... . It will certainly shape the discussion on semantic paradoxes in the years to come. * José Martínez Fernández and Jordi Valor Abad, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Field is St George on a white charger (as portrayed by Raphael on the cover), come to save what he can of a theory of truth (the damsel) from the damage wreaked by the Liar paradox, Königs paradox, Currys paradox, and others (the dragon). * Stephen Read, Mind * Promotional An ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the G: odel incompleteness theorems. Long Description Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches. Part One examines Tarskis, Kripke>s, and Lukasiewicz>s theoriesof truth, and discusses validity and soundness, and vagueness. Part Two considers a wide range of attempts to resolve the paradoxes within classical logic. In Part Three Field turns to non-classical theories of truth that that restrict excluded middle. He shows that there are theories of this sort in which the conditionals obeymany of the classical laws, and that all the semantic paradoxes (not just the simplest ones) can be handled consistently with the naive theory of truth. In Part Four, these theories are extended to the property-theoretic paradoxes and to various other paradoxes, and some issues about the understanding of the notion of validity are addressed. Extended paradoxes, involving the notion of determinate truth, are treated very thoroughly, and a number of different arguments that the theories lead to"revenge problems" are addressed. Finally, Part Five deals with dialetheic approaches to the paradoxes: approaches which, instead of restricting excluded middle, accept certain contradictions but alter classical logic so as to keep them confined to a relatively remote part of the language. Advocatesof dialetheic theories have argued them to be better than theories that restrict excluded middle, for instance over issues related to the incompleteness theorems and in avoiding revenge problems. Field argues that dialetheists> claims on behalf of their theories are quite unfounded, and indeed that on some of these issues all current versions of dialetheism do substantially worse than the best theories that restrict excluded middle. Review Quote one of the most impressive works on semantic paradoxes to have appeared in recent years... written with great clarity and meticulous rigour, the difficulty of the issues dealt with... The book, a must-read for everyone interested in semantic paradoxes (or in philosophical logic more generally), develops a highly-sophisticated theory of truth that aims at solving the resilient problems posed by the Liar Paradox... The book is a valuable source of inspiration ... . It will certainlyshape the discussion on semantic paradoxes in the years to come. Feature Major new work on a central topic in philosophyField is one of the worlds leading philosophers; this is his first monograph since 1980Comprehensive treatment of semantic and related paradoxes Details ISBN0199230749 Author Hartry Field Short Title SAVING TRUTH FROM PARADOX Language English ISBN-10 0199230749 ISBN-13 9780199230747 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation New York University DOI 10.1604/9780199230747 UK Release Date 2008-03-06 AU Release Date 2008-03-06 NZ Release Date 2008-03-06 Pages 424 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2008-03-06 Alternative 9780199230754 DEWEY 121 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:53300760;

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