Berto's highly readable and lucid guide introduces students and the interested reader to Godel's celebrated Incompleteness Theorem, and discusses some of the most famous - and infamous - claims arising from Godel's arguments.
Offers a clear understanding of this difficult subject by presenting each of the key steps of the Theorem in separate chapters
Discusses interpretations of the Theorem made by celebrated contemporary thinkers
Sheds light on the wider extra-mathematical and philosophical implications of Godel's theories
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Berto's highly readable and lucid guide introduces students and the interested reader to Godel's celebrated Incompleteness Theorem, and discuss...
This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy the concept of existence itself reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: Existence is not a predicate. The initial section of the book presents a comprehensive introduction to, and critical evaluation of, this mainstream view. The author moves on to provide the first systematic survey of all the main Meinongian theories of existence, which, by contrast, reckon existence to be a real, full-fledged property of...
This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy the concept of existence itself reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), ...
Here is a comprehensive overview of paraconsistent logical systems, offering chapters contributed by many authorities in the field. The focus is on big picture ideas: different treatments of paradoxes, and application to mathematics, language and metaphysics.
Here is a comprehensive overview of paraconsistent logical systems, offering chapters contributed by many authorities in the field. The focus is on bi...
A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises. While logicians have proposed many technically developed paraconsistent logical systems and contemporary philosophers like Graham Priest have advanced the view that some contradictions can be true, and advocated a paraconsistent logic to deal with them, until recent times these systems have been little understood by philosophers. This book presents a comprehensive overview on paraconsistent logical systems to change this...
A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsi...
Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide is a clear and accessible survey of ontology, focussing on the most recent trends in the discipline.
Divided into parts, the first half characterizes metaontology: the discourse on the methodology of ontological inquiry, covering the main concepts, tools, and methods of the discipline, exploring the notions of being and existence, ontological commitment, paraphrase strategies, fictionalist strategies, and other metaontological questions. The second half considers a series of case studies, introducing and familiarizing the reader...
Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide is a clear and accessible survey of ontology, focussing on the most recent trends in the dis...
