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Author:   Richard Dietz (University of Leuven and University of St Andrews) ,  Sebastiano Moruzzi (University of Bologna and University of St Andrews)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.039kg
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9780199570386

ISBN 10:   0199570388
Pages:   600
Publication Date:   11 February 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Richard Dietz & Sebastiano Moruzzi: Introduction I. The Nature of Vagueness Part 1. What is Vagueness? 1: Agustin Rayo: A Metasemantic Account of Vagueness 2: Scott Soames: The Possibility of Partial Definition 3: Matti Eklund: Vagueness and Second-Level Indeterminacy 4: Brian Weatherson: Vagueness as Indeterminacy 5: Dorothy Edgington: Sorensen on Vagueness and Contradiction Part 2. Vagueness in Reality 6: Stephen Schiffer: Vague Properties 7: Nathan Salmon: Vagaries about Vagueness 8: Stewart Shapiro: Vagueness, Metaphysics, and Objectivity Part 3. Tolerance and Paradox 9: Sven Rosenkranz: Agnosticism and Vagueness 10: Jc Beall: Vague Intensions: A Modest Marriage Proposal 11: Hartry Field: This Magic Moment: Horwich on the Boundary of Vague Terms 12: Leon Horsten: Perceptual Indiscriminability and the Concept of a Color Shade 13: Mario Gómez-Torrente: The Sorites, Linguistic Preconceptions, and the Dual Picture of Vagueness 14: Peter Pagin: Vagueness and Central Gaps Part 4. Vagueness in Context 15: Jonas Åkerman & Patrick Greenough: Hold the Context Fixed - Vagueness Still Remains 16: Andrea Iacona: Saying More (or Less) Than One Thing 17: Max Kölbel: Vagueness as Semantic 18: Dan López De Sa: How to Respond to Borderline Cases II. The Logic of Vagueness Part 5. Supervaluationism 19: Manuel García-Carpintero: Supervaluationism and the Report of Vague Contents 20: Rosanna Keefe: Supervaluationism, Indirect Speech Reports, and Demonstratives 21: Delia Graff Fara: Scope Confusions and Unsatisfiable Disjuncts: Two Problems for Supervaluationism Part 6. Paraconsistent logics 22: Dominic Hyde: The Prospects of a Paraconsistent Response to Vagueness 23: Graham Priest: Non-Transitive Identity Part 7. Many-Valued Logics 24: Graeme Forbes: Identity and the Facts of the Matter 25: John MacFarlane: Fuzzy Epistemicism 26: Mark Richard: Indeterminacy and Truth Value Gaps 27: Peter Simons: Supernumeration: Vagueness and Numbers 28: Nicholas J. J. Smith: Degree of Belief is Expected Truth Value Part 8. Higher-Order Vagueness 29: Diana Raffman: Demoting Higher-Order Vagueness 30: Crispin Wright: The Illusion of Higher-Order Vagueness 31: Cian Dorr: Iterating Definiteness

Reviews

Cuts and Clouds contains many novel, interesting theses on most of the questions discussed in the recent literature on vagueness. Philosophers with an interest in the contemporary debate (and its future development) should not miss this volume. Pablo Cobreros, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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"Richard Dietz received his PhD from the University of Oxford. He has held research positions at the Arché Research Centre in St Andrews and the Institute for Philosophical Research in Mexico City. He is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Logic and Analytical Philosophical, at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven.; Sebastiano Moruzzi received his PhD from the University of Eastern Piedmont ""Amedeo Avogradro"". He has held a research position at the Arché Research Centre in St Andrews. He is currently Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bologna."

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