Revenge of the liar : new essays on the paradox / edited by J.C. Beall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beall, J. C., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liar paradox.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

J.C. Beall presents 14 new essays and an extensive introduction, which examine the nature of the liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it.

Contents:

Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Prolegomenon to Future Revenge; 2 Embracing Revenge: On the Indefinite Extendibility of Language; 3 The Liar Paradox, Expressibility, Possible Languages; 4 Solving the Paradoxes, Escaping Revenge; 5 Validity, Paradox, and the Ideal of Deductive Logic; 6 On the Metatheory of Field's 'Solving the Paradoxes, Escaping Revenge'; 7 Reducing Revenge to Discomfort; 8 Understanding the Liar; 9 Revenge, Field, and ZF; 10 Field on Revenge; 11 Bradwardine's Revenge; 12 Curry's Revenge: The Costs of Non-classical Solutions to the Paradoxes of Self-reference

13 Aletheic Vengeance14 Burali-Forti's Revenge; 15 Revenge and Context; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03679-9

1-281-15054-1

9786611150549

0-19-152850-1

OCLC:

437094574