Vagueness, Logic and Ontology

ISBN-13: 9781138258082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 238 str.

Dominic Hyde

Opis

Vagueness, Logic and Ontology explores various responses to the philosophical problems generated by vagueness and its associated paradox - the sorites paradox. Hyde argues that the theoretical space in which vagueness is sometimes ontologically grounded and modelled by a truth-functional logic affords a coherent response to the problems posed by vagueness. Showing how the concept of vagueness can be applied to the world, Hyde's ontological account proposes a substantial revision of orthodox semantics, metaphysics and logic. This book will be of particular interest to readers in philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science and geographic information systems.

Recenzje

’Hyde's compelling, well documented and argued book is a definite gain in making "the streets of speculation just a little bit safer for the philosophers of tomorrow" (Sorensen, 1989) even though he does that not by banishing it, but by placing speculation into quite a different and complementing logical-ontological limelights.’ Appraisal

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Vagueness; Russell's representational theory; Descriptive representationalism; Going non-classical: gaps and gluts; Ontological vagueness; Vague individuation and counting; The logic of vagueness; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Dominic Hyde is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia.