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The book seeks to characterize reflexive conceptual structures more
thoroughly and more precisely than has been done before, making
explicit the structure of paradox and the clear connections to
major logical results. The goal is to trace the structure of
reflexivity in sentences, sets, and systems, but also as it appears
in propositional attitudes, mental states, perspectives and
processes. What an understanding of patterns of reflexivity offers
is a deeper and de-mystified understanding of issues of semantics,
free will, and the nature of consciousness.
This book is the product of a collaboration stretching the years
2007-10, whose initial fruit was a paper on "Plenum Theory"
published in Nous. The work grew out of the author's conviction
that standard set theory, which had evolved to meet the needs of
mathematics, was not fully adequate to the less abstractly geared
and rigidly determine needs of less finalized ranges of inquiry and
deliberation.
Debates concerning the nature of mind and consciousness are active
and ongoing, with implications for philosophy, psychology,
artificial intelligence and the neurosciences. This book collects
interviews with some of the foremost philosophers of mind, focusing
on open questions, promising projects, and their own intellectual
histories. The result is a rich glimpse of the contemporary debate
through some of the people who make it what it is. Interviews with
Lynne Rudder Baker, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Fred Dretske,
Owen Flanagan, Samuel Guttenplan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, John
Heil, Terence Horgan, Douglas Hofstadter, Frank Jackson, Jaegwon
Kim, William Lycan, Alva No, Hilary Putnam, David Rosenthal, John
Searle, Steven Stich, Galen Strawson, Michael Tye.
The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is
that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of
all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical
paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications
for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of
religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the
universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially
open and incomplete.The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work
on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and
Montague's paradox of the knower, the Godel theorems and related
incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The
emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an
eye to connection's with possible worlds, the notion of
omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: "The world is
all that is the case. "Patrick Grim is Associate Professor in the
Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at
Stony Brook."
This latest volume of "The Philosopher's Annual" presents the ten
best articles published in the field during 2001. No limitations
are placed on the articles' sources, subject matter or mode of
treatment, providing for a diverse collection of engaging,
high-caliber work that stands as a valuable sample of contemporary
philosophy. This year's volume includes papers by Robert
Bernasconi, Hans Halvorson, Christopher Hitchcock, Ignacio Jane,
Brian Leiter, Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, Joel Pust, Alison
Simmons, Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson, and Crispin Wright.
Each year, "The Philosopher's Annual" presents the ten best
articles published in the field of philosophy during the previous
twelve months--with the absence of limits on the articles' sources,
subject matter, or modes of treatment making for a very diverse
collection of engaging, high-caliber work. This year's volume
includes papers by Katalin Balog, Tyler Burge, Cheshire Calhoun,
Sally Haslanger, Thomas Hofweber, Philip Kitcher, Charles G.
Morgan, Thomas W. Pogge, James Pryor, and Elliott Sober.
"The Philosopher's Annual" attempts to select the ten best articles
published in philosophy the previous year. Impossible? Yes. By
attempting the impossible this collection calls attention to truly
exceptional critiques from the philosophical field. This is the
22nd volume of the series, collecting outstanding work from the
philosophy literature of 1999. Each year the members of the
distinguished nominating board are asked to name three papers that
most impressed them from the literature of the previous year. No
limitations are placed on sources from which articles may be
nominated, on subject matter, or on mode of treatment. The process
delivers a diverse collection of engaging, high caliber work that
stands as a valuable sample of contemporary work in philosophy.
This latest volume of "The Philosopher's Annual" presents the ten
best articles published in the field during 2001. No limitations
are placed on the articles' sources, subject matter or mode of
treatment, providing for a diverse collection of engaging,
high-caliber work that stands as a valuable sample of contemporary
philosophy. This year's volume includes papers by Robert
Bernasconi, Hans Halvorson, Christopher Hitchcock, Ignacio Jane,
Brian Leiter, Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, Joel Pust, Alison
Simmons, Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson, and Crispin Wright.
"The Philosopher's Annual" attempts to select the ten best articles
published in philosophy the previous year. Impossible? Yes. By
attempting the impossible this collection calls attention to truly
exceptional critiques from the philosophical field. This is the
22nd volume of the series, collecting outstanding work from the
philosophy literature of 1999. Each year the members of the
distinguished nominating board are asked to name three papers that
most impressed them from the literature of the previous year. No
limitations are placed on sources from which articles may be
nominated, on subject matter, or on mode of treatment. The process
delivers a diverse collection of engaging, high caliber work that
stands as a valuable sample of contemporary work in philosophy.
Each year, "The Philosopher's Annual" presents the ten best
articles published in the field of philosophy during the previous
twelve months--with the absence of limits on the articles' sources,
subject matter, or modes of treatment making for a very diverse
collection of engaging, high-caliber work. This year's volume
includes papers by Katalin Balog, Tyler Burge, Cheshire Calhoun,
Sally Haslanger, Thomas Hofweber, Philip Kitcher, Charles G.
Morgan, Thomas W. Pogge, James Pryor, and Elliott Sober.
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