ABSTRACT

Vagueness, volume XX, contains twenty-seven essays, with issues covered including: nihilism, phenomenal sorites, degrees of truth, epistemicism, higher-order vagueness, contextualism, and intuitionism. Written by leading contemporary philosophers, these essays will be of interest to researchers in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and epistemology; as well as those in natural language semantics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science more generally. A substantial introduction written by the editors provides a guide to the topic and to the essays in the volume.

part I|106 pages

Nihilism

part II|87 pages

Observational Predicates

part III|23 pages

Degrees of Truth

part IV|58 pages

Epistemicism

chapter 11|17 pages

The Sorites Paradox

chapter 12|13 pages

What Makes It a Heap?

chapter 13|24 pages

Hat-Tricks and Heaps

part VI|118 pages

Contextualism

chapter 21|53 pages

Hans Kamp

The Paradox of the Heap*
Edited ByHans Kamp

chapter 23|34 pages

Vagueness Without Paradox

The Philosophical Review, Vol. 103, No. 1 (January 1994)

part VII|36 pages

Intuitionism

chapter 24|18 pages

Vagueness and Alternative Logic

chapter 26|1 pages

A Quick Read is a Wrong Wright

chapter 27|10 pages

Putnam on the Sorites Paradox