The Road to Paradox (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108841016)

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 G?del'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 G?del 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.

Author: Volker Halbach, Graham E. Leigh
ISBN-10: 1108841015
ISBN-13: 9781108841016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2024
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d