Description: Vagueness and Thought, Paperback by Bacon, Andrew, ISBN 0192856081, ISBN-13 9780192856081, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are people who are neither definitely bald, nor definitely not bald. The epistemology of vagueness concerns the sorts of attitudes we ought to have towards propositions we know to
be borderline. Is it possible to discover whether a borderline bald man is bald? Could two people with access to the same facts reasonably disagree about whether he is bald? Does it matter, when making practical decisions, whether he is bald?
By drawing on such considerations, Andrew Bacon develops a novel theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of propositions, and is explicated in terms of its role in thought. On this theory, language plays little role in explaining the central puzzles of vagueness.
Part I of th outlines some of the central questions regarding the logic and epistemology of vagueness, and criticizes some extant approaches to them. Part II concerns issues in the epistemology of vagueness, touching on the ramifications of vague thoughts on the study of evidence, ignorance,
desire, probability theory, and decision theory. By examining the effects of vague information on ones beliefs about the precise, a positive theory of vagueness is proposed. Part III concerns the logic of vagueness, including the interaction between vagueness and modality, vague identity, and the
paradoxes of higher-order vagueness. Bacon suggests that some familiar philosophical notions -- including the concept of a fundamental proposition, a possible world and a precisification -- need to be revised.
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Book Title: Vagueness and Thought
Number of Pages: 362 Pages
Publication Name: Vagueness and Thought
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: History & Philosophy, Epistemology, General, Metaphysics
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Andrew Bacon
Subject Area: Mathematics, Philosophy
Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
