Liars and Heaps

Semantic and soritical paradoxes challenge entrenched, fundamental principles about language - principles about truth, denotation, quantification, and, among others, ´tolerance´.Study of the paradoxes helps us determine which logical principles are correct.So it is that they serve not only as a topic of philosophical inquiry but also as a constraint on such inquiry: they often dictate the semantic and logical limits of discourse in general.Sixteen specially written essays by leading figures in the field offer new thoughts and arguments about the paradoxes.
Contents: PART I: SORITICAL PARADOXES; 1. A Site for Sorites; 2. Cut-Offs and their Neighbours; 3. Vagueness and Conversation; 4. Context, Vagueness, and the Sorites; 5. Vagueness: A Fifth Column Approach; 6. Semantic Accounts of Vagueness; 7. Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates; 8. Against Truth-Value Gaps; 9. Gap Principles, Penumbral Consequence, and Infinitely Higher-Order Vagueness; PART II: SEMANTIC PARADOXES; 10. A Definite No-No; 11. Reference and Paradox; 12. On the Singularity Theory of Denotation; 13. The Semantic Paradoxes and the Paradoxes of Vagueness; 14. New Grounds for Naive Truth Theory; 15. A Completeness Theorem for Unrestricted First-Order Languages; 16. Universal Universal Quantification