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Revenge of the liar : new essays on the paradox / edited by J.C. Beall. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - x, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prolegomenon to future revenge / J.C. Beall -- Embracing revenge: on the indefinite extendibility of language / Roy T. Cook -- The liar paradox, expressibility, possible languages / Matti Eklund -- Solving the paradoxes, escaping revenge / Hartry Field -- Validity, paradox, and the ideal of deductive logic / Thomas Hofweber -- On the metatheory of Field's 'Solving the paradoxes, escaping revenge' / Hannes Leitgeb -- Reducing revenge to discomfort / Tim Maudlin -- Understanding the liar / Douglas Patterson -- Revenge, Field, and ZF / Graham Priest -- Field on revenge / Agustín Rayo and P.D. Welch -- Bradwardine's revenge / Stephen Read -- Curry's revenge: the costs of non-classical solutions to the paradoxes of self-reference / Greg Restall -- Alethic vengeance / Kevin Scharp -- Burali-Forti's revenge / Stewart Shapiro -- Revenge and context / Keith Simmons.

ISBN: 9780199233915 (hbk : alk. paper) 0199233918 (hbk : alk. paper) 019923390X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780199233908 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA768282 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013828508 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Liar paradox.

LC Class. No.: BC199.P2 / R482 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 165