{"product_id":"john-buridan-on-self-reference-chapter-eight-of-buridans-sophismata-with-a-translation-an-introduction-and-a-philosophical-commentary-paperback-9780521288644","title":"John Buridan on Self-Reference; Chapter Eight of Buridan's 'Sophismata', with a Translation, an Introduction, and a Philosophical Commentary (Paperback) 9780521288644","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJohn Buridan on Self-Reference\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eChapter Eight of Buridan's 'Sophismata', with a Translation, an Introduction, and a Philosophical Commentary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohn Buridan is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Buridan (Author), G. E. Hughes (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521288644, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 9 September 1982\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e184 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.24 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJohn Buridan was a fourteenth-century philosopher who enjoyed an enormous reputation for about two hundred years, was then totally neglected, and is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. The final chapter of Buridan's Sophismata deals with problems about self-reference, and in particular with the semantic paradoxes. He offers his own distinctive solution to the well-known 'Liar Paradox' and introduces a number of other paradoxes that will be unfamiliar to most logicians. Buridan also moves on from these problems to more general questions about the nature of propositions, the criteria of their truth and falsity and the  concepts of validity and knowledge. This edition of that  chapter is intended to make Buridan's ideas and arguments accessible to a wider range of readers. The volume should interest many philosophers, linguists and logicians, who are increasingly finding in medieval work striking anticipations of their own concerns.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introductory sophisms\u003cbr\u003e 2. Alethic paradoxes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Epistemic paradoxes\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pragmatic paradoxes\u003cbr\u003e 5. Commentary\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006982213912,"sku":"9780521288644","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521288644i_01053e84-ef0e-48b4-a365-07a4870e9b4c.jpg?v=1691374599","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/john-buridan-on-self-reference-chapter-eight-of-buridans-sophismata-with-a-translation-an-introduction-and-a-philosophical-commentary-paperback-9780521288644","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}