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STEVEN JAMES BARTLETT |
Self-reference: Reflections on Reflexivity Steven J. Bartlett & Peter Suber (Eds.) Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. Now published by Springer Science.
From the back cover:
Even before the early twentieth century, when the first semantic and set-theoretical paradoxes were felt in logic and mathematics, an ever-widening circle of disciplines was affected by problems of self-reference. Problems of self-reference have become important topics in artificial intelligence, in the foundations of mathematics and logic, in the psychology of reflection, self-consciousness, and self-regulation. Epistemology, logic, computer science, information theory, cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, sociology and anthropology, and even theology have faced explicit self-referential or reflexive challenges to research or doctrine.
Self-reference: Reflections on Reflexivity, edited by Steven J. Bartlett and Peter Suber, is the first published collection of essays to give a sense of depth and breadth of current work on this fascinating and important set of issues. The volume contains 13 essays by well-known authors in this field, written on special invitation for this collection. In addition, the book includes the first general bibliography of works on self-reference, comprising more than 1,200 citations.
CONTENTS
Introduction Steven J. Bartlett Varieties of Self-reference — to download (932KB) click here Part I: Informal Reflections D. A. Whewell Self-reference and Meaning in a Natural Language Peter Suber Logical Rudeness Myron Miller The Pragmatic Paradox Henry W. Johnstone, Jr. Argumentum ad Hominem with and without Self-reference Douglas Odegard The Irreflexivity of Knowledge Part II: Formal Reflections Frederic B. Fitch Formalized Self-reference Raymond Smullyan Quotation and Self-reference Graham Priest Unstable Solutions to the Liar Paradox Part III: Specific Reflections W. D. Hart Causation and Self-reference Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. Is Determinism Self-refuting? Olaf Tollefsen The Equivocation Defense of Cognitive Relativism Martin X. Moleski, S.J. The Role of Retortion in the Cognitional Analyses of Lonergan and Polanyi James E. Swearingen Reflexivity and the Decentered Self Part IV: Bibliography Peter Suber A Bibliography of Works on Reflexivity |
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