John Buridan on Self-Reference by John Buridan
John Buridan was a fourteenth-century philosopher who enjoyed an enormous reputation for about two hundred years, was then totally neglected, and is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. The final chapter of Buridan's Sophismata deals with problems about self-reference, and in particular with the semantic paradoxes. He offers his own distinctive solution to the well-known 'Liar Paradox' and introduces a number of other paradoxes that will be unfamiliar to most logicians. Buridan also moves on from these problems to more general questions about the nature of propositions, the criteria of their truth and falsity and the concepts of validity and knowledge. This edition of that chapter is intended to make Buridan's ideas and arguments accessible to a wider range of readers. The volume should interest many philosophers, linguists and logicians, who are increasingly finding in medieval work striking anticipations of their own concerns.
Buridan, John: - John Buridan, ca. 1300 to after 1358, was a French independent cleric who studied and later taught at the University of Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521288644 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521288649 |
| Title | John Buridan on Self-Reference |
| Author | John Buridan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1982-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
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