Vagueness: A Guide

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ronzitti, Giuseppina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science ; 19
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Metaphysics.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Political science.; Linguistics.; Philosophy of Language.; Philosophy of Law.; Linguistics, general.

This volume analyzes and studies how vagueness occurs and matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. After an introductory chapter on the Sorites paradox by Dominic Hyde, in which the author exposes the various forms the paradox can take and som...

Table of Contents:

• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction: Vagueneness and.... ; Giuseppina Ronzitti
• 1. The Sorites Paradox; Dominic Hyde
• 2. Vagueness and Metaphysics; Jonathan Lowe
• 3. Vagueness and Logic; Stewart Shapiro
• 4. Vagueness an Meaning Theories; Roy Cook
• 5. Vagueness and Observationality; Diana Raffman
• 6. Vagueness and Linguistics; Robert van Rooij
• 7. Vagueness and Law; Timothy Endicott
• Index.