Saving Truth From Paradox by Hartry Field

Saving Truth From Paradox by Hartry Field

This is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Godel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches.

one of the most impressive works on semantic paradoxes to have appeared in recent years.. written with great clarity and meticulous rigour, the difficulty of the issues dealt with... The book, a must-read for everyone interested in semantic paradoxes (or in philosophical logic more generally), develops a highly-sophisticated theory of truth that aims at solving the resilient problems posed by the Liar Paradox... The book is a valuable source of inspiration ... . It will certainly shape the discussion on semantic paradoxes in the years to come. * José Martínez Fernández and Jordi Valor Abad, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Field is St George on a white charger (as portrayed by Raphael on the cover), come to save what he can of a theory of truth (the damsel) from the damage wreaked by the Liar paradox, König's paradox, Curry's paradox, and others (the dragon). * Stephen Read, Mind *

Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Hartry Field He is the author of Realism, Mathematics, and Modality (199? ), which earned the Lakatos/Matchette Award, and Science Without Numbers (198?).

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ISBN 13	9780199230747
ISBN 10	0199230749
Title	Saving Truth From Paradox
Author	Hartry Field
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2008-03-06
Number of pages	424
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