Road to Paradox

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.

• Preface; 1. Aims and Ends; 2. Technical Preliminaries; 3. Predicates and Conceptual Analysis; 4. Paradoxes over Logic; 5. A Theory of Expressions; 6. The Paradoxes; 7. Possible-Worlds Semantics; 8. An Expressive Theory of Expressions; 9. Consistency, Denotation, and Arithmetic; 10. Formal Language; 11. Formal Truth; 12. Generalizations and Intensionality; Bibliography.

'This book provides a gentle introduction to contemporary discussions and results on truth and paradox, making these important topics accessible to a wider audience. In particular, the authors develop a theory of syntax independently of any arithmetical considerations, which makes the book intelligible also to readers without an extensive mathematical background. Strongly recommended to anyone interested in the traditional philosophical issues of epistemology and metaphysics.' Cezary Cieslinski, University of Warsaw