Graham Priest on Dialetheism and Paraconsistency

Thomas Macaulay Ferguson editor Can Başkent editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:26th Aug '21

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This book presents the state of the art in the fields of formal logic pioneered by Graham Priest. It includes advanced technical work on the model and proof theories of paraconsistent logic, in contributions from top scholars in the field. Graham Priest’s research has had a considerable influence on the field of philosophical logic, especially with respect to the themes of dialetheism—the thesis that there exist true but inconsistent sentences—and paraconsistency—an account of deduction in which contradictory premises do not entail the truth of arbitrary sentences. Priest’s work has regularly challenged researchers to reappraise many assumptions about rationality, ontology, and truth.

This book collects original research by some of the most esteemed scholars working in philosophical logic, whose contributions explore and appraise Priest’s work on logical approaches to problems in philosophy, linguistics, computation, and mathematics. They provide fresh analyses, critiques, and applications of Priest’s work and attest to its continued relevance and topicality. The book also includes Priest’s responses to the contributors, providing a further layer to the development of these themes

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“The book gives many insights into topics concerning paraconsistent logic. The volume inspires and provokes new questions and further research. I think that it will be very interesting, on the one hand for philosophers who will be introduced into the mathematical aspects of dialetheim and paraconsistency and, on the other hand logicians will get a solid and philosophical ground for logical formalisms.” (Bożena Czernecka-Rej, Studia Logica, February 14, 2022)

ISBN: 9783030253677

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1080g

704 pages

1st ed. 2019