New essays on the knowability paradox [electronic resource] / edited by Joe Salerno.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xi, 373 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 165 22
LOC classification:
  • BC199.P2 N49 2009eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-365) and index.

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.

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