The Road to Paradox: A Guide to Syntax, Truth and Modality - Softcover

Halbach, Volker; Leigh, Graham E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108744699 ISBN 13: 9781108744690

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

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 Gödel'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 Gödel 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Volker Halbach is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College, Oxford. He is the author of The Logic Manual (2010) and Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Cambridge, 2011).

Graham E. Leigh is Associate Professor of Logic at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published a number of influential articles on the concepts of truth, reflection, and computation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1108744699
• ISBN 13: 9781108744690
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 418
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien