Overview
- Systematic presentation of the problem of vagueness
- Written by renown scholars
- Vagueness is treated thematically
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 19)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. After an introductory chapter on the Sorites paradox, which exposes the various forms the paradox can take and some of the responses that have been pursued, the book proceeds with a chapter on vagueness and metaphysics, which covers important questions concerning vagueness that arise in connection with the deployment of certain key metaphysical notions. Subsequent chapters address the following: vagueness and logic, which discusses the sort of model theory that is suggested by the main, rival accounts of vagueness; vagueness and meaning, which focuses on contextualist, epistemicist, and indeterminist theories; vagueness and observationality; vagueness within linguistics, which focuses on approaches that take comparison classes into account; and the idea that vagueness in law is typically extravagant and that extravagant vagueness is a necessary feature of legal systems.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vagueness: A Guide
Editors: Giuseppina Ronzitti
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0375-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0374-2Published: 11 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3550-7Published: 21 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0375-9Published: 03 March 2011
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 200
Topics: Metaphysics, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law, Linguistics, general