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Author | : Andrew Bacon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198712065 |
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"Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases. The epistemology of vagueness concerns attitudes we should have towards propositions we know to be borderline. On this basis Andrew Bacon develops a new theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of propositions, explicated in terms of its role in thought."--
Author | : Andrew Bacon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-04-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191020036 |
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Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are people who are neither definitely bald, nor definitely not bald. The epistemology of vagueness concerns the sorts of attitudes we ought to have towards propositions we know to be borderline. Is it possible to discover whether a borderline bald man is bald? Could two people with access to the same facts reasonably disagree about whether he is bald? Does it matter, when making practical decisions, whether he is bald? By drawing on such considerations, Andrew Bacon develops a novel theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of propositions, and is explicated in terms of its role in thought. On this theory, language plays little role in explaining the central puzzles of vagueness. Part I of the book outlines some of the central questions regarding the logic and epistemology of vagueness, and criticizes some extant approaches to them. Part II concerns issues in the epistemology of vagueness, touching on the ramifications of vague thoughts on the study of evidence, ignorance, desire, probability theory, and decision theory. By examining the effects of vague information on one's beliefs about the precise, a positive theory of vagueness is proposed. Part III concerns the logic of vagueness, including the interaction between vagueness and modality, vague identity, and the paradoxes of higher-order vagueness. Bacon suggests that some familiar philosophical notions — including the concept of a fundamental proposition, a possible world and a precisification — need to be revised.
Author | : Kit Fine |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0197514952 |
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"The book is about the problem of vagueness. It begins by discussing some of the existing views on vagueness and then explains why they have not been thought to be satisfactory. It then outlines a new account of vagueness, based upon the general idea that vagueness is a global rather than a local phenomenon.. In other words, the vagueness of an expression or object is not an intrinsic feature of the object or an expression but a matter of how it relates to other objects and expression. The development of this idea leads to a new semantics and logic for vagueness. The semantics and logic are then applied to a number of issues, including the sorites paradox, the transparency of mental states, and personal identity. It is shown that the view allows one to hew to a much more intuitive position on these various issues"--
Author | : Geert Keil |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0198722370 |
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Blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in almost every publication concerned with the classification of mental disorders. Yet, systematic approaches that take into account discussions about vagueness are rare. This volume is the first in the psychiatry/philosophy literature to tackle this problem.
Author | : Michael Tye |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192637061 |
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When Alice stepped through the looking-glass, she encountered a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. Reflecting on the inception of consciousness, it is natural to suppose that there are just two alternatives. Either consciousness appeared in living beings suddenly, like a light switch turning on, or it appeared gradually, like the biological development of life itself, through borderline cases which became the collective experience over time. For the former theory, consciousness is an on/off matter, but once it was there it became richer over time, like a beam of light becoming brighter and broader in its sweep. For the latter theory this is not the case, and there are shades of grey in how consciousness develops. Unfortunately, both alternatives face deep problems. The solution to these problems lies in the realization, strange as it may be, that a key element of consciousness itself was always here, as a fundamental feature of micro-reality. Varying conscious states were not, however: they appeared gradually. In Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness, Michael Tye addresses the questions that this raises. Where in the brain is consciousness located? How can consciousness be casually efficacious with respect to behaviour? What is the extent of consciousness in the animal world? How can all of this be so?
Author | : Annie Besant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Theosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Diana Raffman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199915105 |
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In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed.
Author | : José Luis Bermúdez |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005-07-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199248966 |
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Gareth Evans was arguably the finest philosopher of his generation. In this volume, an international team of contributors offer illuminating perspectives on Evans's groundbreaking work, paying tribute to his achievements and leading his ideas in new directions.
Author | : Michael Tye |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198867239 |
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The two dominant theories of consciousness argue it appeared in living beings either suddenly, or gradually. Both theories face problems. The solution is the realization that a foundational consciousness was always here, yet varying conscious states were not, and appeared gradually. Michael Tye explores this idea and the key questions it raises.
Author | : Timothy Williamson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134770189 |
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If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a form of ignorance - there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we can never know exactly which one it is.