The Incomplete Universe

Totality, Knowledge, and Truth

Patrick Grim (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

1991
Bradford Books (Verlag)
978-0-262-51911-3 (ISBN)

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The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete. The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague's paradox of the knower, the Goedel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection's with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: "The world is all that is the case. "

Patrick Grim is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.11.1991
Reihe/Serie	A Bradford Book
Verlagsort	Massachusetts
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	0-262-51911-9 / 0262519119
ISBN-13	978-0-262-51911-3 / 9780262519113
Zustand	Neuware