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The Road to Paradox

A Guide to Syntax, Truth and Modality

Author: Volker Halbach and Graham E. Leigh  

The Road to Paradox
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A clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems.

This book provides 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.

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A clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems.

This book provides 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.

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Truth, provability, necessity, and other concepts are fundamental to many branches of philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. Their study has led to some of the most celebrated achievements in logic, such as Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Tarski's theorem on the undefinability of truth, and numerous accounts of the paradoxes associated with these concepts. This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It offers new analyses of the ideas of self-reference, circularity, and the semantic paradoxes, and helps readers to see both how paradoxes arise and what their common features are. 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.

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Critic Reviews

'This book provides a gentle introduction to contemporary discussions and results on truth and paradox, making these important topics accessible to a wider audience. In particular, the authors develop a theory of syntax independently of any arithmetical considerations, which makes the book intelligible also to readers without an extensive mathematical background. Strongly recommended to anyone interested in the traditional philosophical issues of epistemology and metaphysics.' Cezary Cieslinski, University of Warsaw

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About the Author

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). Graham E. Leigh is Associate Professor of Logic at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published a number of influential articles on the concepts of truth, reflection, and computation.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
31st October 2024
Pages
418
ISBN
9781108841016

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