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STEVEN JAMES BARTLETT |
Reflexivity A Source-Book In Self-Reference
Edited and with an Introduction by Steven James Bartlett
Amsterdam: North-Holland / Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992
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From the Editor’s Introduction:
The Internal Limitations of Human Understanding
We carry, unavoidably, the limits of our understanding with us. We are perpetually confined within the horizons of our conceptual structure. When this structure grows or expands, the breadth of our comprehensions enlarges, but we are forever barred from the wished-for glimpse beyond its boundaries, no matter how hard we try, no matter how much credence we invest in the substance of our learning and mist of speculation.
The limitations in view here are not due to the mere finitude of our understanding of ourselves and of the world in which we live. They are limitations that come automatically and necessarily with any form of understanding. They are, as we shall see, part and parcel of any organization or ordering of data that we call information.
The consequences of these limitations are varied: As a result of them, hermeneutics cannot help but be hermetic; scientific theories of necessity are circumscribed by the boundaries of the ideas that define them; formal systems must choose between consistency and comprehensiveness; philosophical study, because it includes itself within its own proper subject matter, is forced to be reflexive in its self-enclosure. The fundamental dynamic shared by all forms of understanding testifies to an internal limitative keystone.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Role of Reflexivity in Understanding Human Understanding Steven J. Bartlett
PART I: SEMANTICAL SELF-REFERENCE
Paradox W. V. Quine The Theory of Types Paul Weiss A System which Can Define its Own Truth John Myhill Heterologicality Gilbert Ryle Some Reflections on Reflexivity Jørgen Jørgensen On Non-translational Semantics R. M. Martin Languages in which Self-reference Is Possible Raymond M. Smullyan On a Family of Paradoxes A. N. Prior A Note on Self-referential Statements Nicholas Rescher Toward a Solution to the Liar Paradox Robert L. Martin Presupposition, Implication, and Self-reference Bas C. van Fraassen
PART II: PRAGMATICAL SELF-REFERENCE
Pragmatic Paradoxes D. J. O’Connor Mr. O’Connor’s “Pragmatic Paradoxes” L. Jonathan Cohen Pragmatic Paradoxes Peter Alexander Fugitive Propositions Austin Duncan-Jones Pragmatic Paradoxes and Fugitive Propositions D. J. O’Connor Pragmatic Implication C. K. Grant On Self-reference W. D. Hart
PART III: METALOGICAL SELF-REFERENCE
Self-reference in Philosophy Frederic B. Fitch Universal Metalanguages for Philosophy Frederick B. Fitch The Idea of a Metalogic of Reference Steven J. Bartlett Referential Consistency as a Criterion of Meaning Steven J. Bartlett
PART IV: COMPUTATIONAL SELF-REFERENCE
First Order Theories of Individual Concepts and Propositions J. McCarthy Foundations of a Functional Approach to a Knowledge Representation Hector J. Levesque A Computational theory of Belief Introspection Kurt Konolige Languages with Self-reference, I: Foundations Donald Perlis Languages with Self-reference, II: Knowledge, Belief, and Modality Donald Perlis
PART V: SELF-REFERENTIAL ARGUMENTATION
Cosmic Necessities Paul Weiss On the Self-reference of a Meaning Theory Robert J. Richman Argumentation and Inconsistency Henry W. Johnstone, Jr. On Self-reference and a Puzzle in Constitutional Law Alf Ross Self-referential Inconsistency, Inevitable Falsity, and Metaphysical Argumentation Joseph M. Boyle, Jr.
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