New essays on the knowability paradox / edited by Joe Salerno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salerno, Joe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paradox.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 373 pages)

Other Title:

Knowability paradox

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

The knowability paradox suggests that wherever there is empirical ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth. This volume presents the original papers in which this notorious problem was first set out, nineteen new papers seeking to resolve it, and a helpful introduction. It will be the definitive resource for study of the paradox.

Contents:

Early history

Referee reports on Fitch's "definition of value" / Alonzo Church

A logical analysis of some value concepts / Frederic B. Fitch

Knowability noir, 1945

1963 / Joe Salerno

Dummett's constructivism

Fitch's paradox of knowability / Michael Dummett

The paradox of knowability and the mapping objection / Stig Alstrup Rasmussen

Truth, indefinite extensibility, and fitch's paradox / Jose Luis Bermudez

Paraconsistency and paracompleteness

Beyond the limits of knowledge / Graham Priest

Knowability and possible epistemic oddities / J.C. Beall

Epistemic and temporal operators : actions, times and types

Actions that make us know / Johan van Benthem

Can truth out? / Johnw Burgess

Logical types in some arguments about knowability and belief / Bernard Linsky

Cartesian restricted truth

Tennant's troubles / Timothy Williamson

Restriction strategies for knowability : some lessons in false hope / Jonathan L. Kvanvig

Revamping the restriction strategy / Neil Tennant

Modal and mathematical fictions

On keeping blue swans and unknowable facts at bay : a case study on Fitch's paradox / Berit Brogaard

Fitch's paradox and the philosophy of mathematics / Otavio Bueno

Knowability reconsidered

Performance and paradox / Michael Hand

The mystery of the disappearing diamond / C.S. Jenkins

Invincible ignorance / W.D. Hart

Two deflationary approaches to fitch-style reasoning / Christoph Kelp and Duncan Pritchard

Not every truth can be known (at least, not all at once) / Greg Restall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-365) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612346439

9780191558047

0191558044

9780191713972

019171397X

9780191608681

0191608688

9781282346437

1282346431

OCLC:

472873097