Semantic Singularities: Paradoxes of Reference, Predication, and Truth

ISBN-13: 9780198791546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Keith Simmons

Opis

Keith Simmons presents an original, unified solution to the semantic paradoxes which have dogged attempts to give a consistent account of the logic of natural language since antiquity: the Liar paradox and the paradoxes of reference and predication.

Recenzje

Summing up: Recommended

O autorze

Keith Simmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, having previously been at the University of North Carolina from 1987 to 2014. He is author of Universality and the Liar (Cambridge 1993), and co-editor with Simon Blackburn of the volume on Truth in the series Oxford Readings in Philosophy (1999). Has written numerous articles in the philosophy and history of logic, philosophy of language, and Kant's ethics.