{"product_id":"9788185636436","title":"Circularity, Definition and Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume consists of eighteen new essays, written by distinguished scholars, on topics that   are of great interest to logicians and philosophers: definitions and the concept of truth. The   essays fall into three groups. The first group defends the logical legitimacy and fruitfulness   of circular definitions. It argues that circular definitions yield better theories not only of   truth but also of defeasible inference, rationality, knowledge, and vagueness. The second group   contributes to the philosophical debate over deflationism. Some essays in this group develop   better versions of deflationary and substantive theories; some draw attention to phenomena that   must be kept in view in thinking about truth. The final group is concerned with recent logical   theories of truth. This group includes critical assessments of fixed?point and revision theories.   It includes also new and accessible presentations of pointer semantics and the singularity theory   by their originators.\u003c\/p\u003e       \u003cp\u003eAndré Chapuis is the recipient of a Swiss NSF fellowship for research on the foundation of   rational choice. His doctoral dissertation on contemporary theories of truth was awarded the   Wolfgang Stegmüller Prize in 1994. His articles have been published in Journal of Philosophical   Logic and Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eAnil Gupta is the Rudy Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A. He has   authored \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Common Nouns\u003c\/i\u003e (1980) and, with Nuel Belnap, \u003ci\u003eThe Revision Theory of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e   (1993). His articles and reviews have appeared in Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review,   Journal of Philosophical Logic, and other journals. He was an editor of Journal of Philosophical   Logic and currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical   Research.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indian Council of Philosophical Research","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49787813200112,"sku":"9788185636436","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788185636436","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}