Dialetheism and its Applications

by Adam Rieger, Gareth Young

Overview

The purpose of this book is to present unpublished papers at the cutting edge of research on dialetheism and to reflect recent work on the applications of the theory. It includes contributions from some of the most respected scholars in the field, as well as from young, up-and-coming philosophers working on dialetheism.

Moving from the fringes of philosophy to become a main player in debates concerning truth and the logical paradoxes, dialetheism has thrived since the publication of Graham Priest’s In Contradiction, and several of the papers find their roots in a conference on dialetheism held in Glasgow to mark the 25th anniversary of Priest’s book. The content presented here demonstrates the considerable body of work produced in this field in recent years.

With a broad focus, this book also addresses the applications of dialetheism outside the more familiar area of the logical paradoxes, and includes pieces discussing the application of dialetheism in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030302207
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/02/2020
Series:	Trends in Logic , #52
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Dialetheism and a Game Theoretical Paradox.- TBA.- Does Beall’s Version of Dialetheism Escape Triviality?.- Being, Dialetheism and Para-foundationalism.- Theism and Dialetheism.- Deontic Dialetheism.- An Excess of Dialetheias: In Defence of Genuine Impossible Worlds.- Lessons from inconsistency.- Semantic dialetheism reformulated and defended.- Semantic dialetheism reformulated and defended.- Relativism in contradiction?.- Strengthening the Goodship Project.- TBA.- Dialetheism and natural-language negation.- Inconsistency and Incompleteness, revisited.- Dialetheism and the Curry-validity paradox.- Zeno’s Paradoxes. A Cardinal Problem: Motion as Plurality.- On what is possible, what is not, and what is both.- Revenge and Too Easy Revenge.