The Riddle of Vagueness

Crispin Wright did his Ph.D. at Cambridge before being elected Prize Fellow (1969) at All Souls College Oxford, where he spent the first nine years of his career. He was appointed to the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at St Andrews in 1978, at that time the youngest ever appointment to an established chair in philosophy in the UK. At St Andrews, his achievements included appointment (1999) to the first Wardlaw University Professorship and the foundation (1998) and Directorship for its first decade of the research centre, Arché. He is currently Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. Previously, he has taught at Oxford, Columbia, Michigan, Princeton, St Andrews, and at Aberdeen from 2009-15 where he held the Regius Chair of Logic and directed the Northern Institute of Philosophy.

• Preface and Acknowledgements Origins of the Essays Richard Kimberly Heck: Introduction 1: On the Coherence of Vague Predicates 2: Language-Mastery and the Sorites Paradox 3: Hairier than Putnam Thought (with Stephen Read) 4: Further Reflections on the Sorites Paradox 5: Is Higher Order Vagueness Coherent? 6: The Epistemic Conception of Vagueness 7: On Being in a Quandary: Relativism, Vagueness, Logical Revisionism 8: Rosenkranz on Quandary, Vagueness, and Intuitionism 9: Vagueness: a Fifth Column Approach 10: Vagueness-related Partial Belief and the Constitution of Borderline Cases 11: "Wang's Paradox" 12: The Illusion of Higher-Order Vagueness 13: On the Characterisation of Borderline Cases 14: Intuitionism and Vagueness Appendix to Chapter 14