New Essays on the Knowability Paradox

ISBN: 9780199285495 出版年：2010 页码：386 Oxford University Press

Introduction I. EARLY HISTORY 1. Referee Reports on Fitch's "A Definition of Value" 2. A Logical Analysis of Some Value Concepts 3. Knowability Noir: 1945-1963 II. DUMMETT'S CONSTRUCTIVISM 4. Fitch's Paradox of Knowability 5. The Paradox of Knowability and the Mapping Objection 6. Truth, Indefinite Extensibility, and Fitch's Paradox III. PARACONSISTENCY AND PARACOMPLETENESS 7. Beyond the Limits of Knowledge 8. Knowability and Possible Epistemic Oddities IV. EPISTEMIC AND TEMPORAL OPERATORS: ACTIONS, TIMES AND TYPES 9. Actions That Make us Know 10. Can Truth Out? 11. Logical Types in Arguments about Knowability and Belief V. CARTESIAN RESTRICTED TRUTH 12. Tennant's Troubles 13. Restriction Strategies for Knowability: Some Lessons in False Hope 14. Revamping the Restriction Strategy VI. MODAL AND MATHEMATICAL FICTIONS 15. On Keeping Blue Swans and Unknowable Facts at Bay: a Case Study on Fitch's Paradox 16. Fitch's Paradox and the Philosophy of Mathematics VII. KNOWABILITY RECONSIDERED 17. Performance and Paradox 18. The Mystery of the Disappearing Diamond 19. Invincible Ignorance 20. Two Deflationary Approaches to Fitch-Style Reasoning 21. Not Every Truth Can Be Known (at least, not all at once)