The Road to Paradox

Auteur

Volker Halbach is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College, Oxford. He is the author of The Logic Manual (2010) and Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Cambridge, 2011).

Texte du rabat

This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It will be valuable for students and researchers with a minimal background in logic and will equip them to understand and discuss a wide variety of topics in philosophical logic.

Contenu

Preface; 1. Aims and Ends; 2. Technical Preliminaries; 3. Predicates and Conceptual Analysis; 4. Paradoxes over Logic; 5. A Theory of Expressions; 6. The Paradoxes; 7. Possible-Worlds Semantics; 8. An Expressive Theory of Expressions; 9. Consistency, Denotation, and Arithmetic; 10. Formal Language; 11. Formal Truth; 12. Generalizations and Intensionality; Bibliography.