PHI 633: Reading Assignments
Readings are listed in the order in which they should be
approached.
This list of reading assignments will be revised/amended as we
progress through the semester.
Week 1: Introduction
Weeks 2-3: Vagueness and Perception
Dummett: "Wang's Paradox" (in Keefe and Smith).
Graff: "Phenomenal Continua and the Sorites".
Jackson and Pinkerton: "On an Argument against Sensory Items".
Wright: "On the Coherence of Vague Predicates" (skim if necessary,
focussing on sections III and V, making sure to read pages
344–347).
Goodman (optional): The Structure of Appearance
(selections).
Week 4-6: Three-Valued and Fuzzy Logic
Williamson: ch.4 of Vagueness
Machina: "Truth, Belief and Vagueness" (in Keefe and Smith).
Sainsbury: "Degrees of Belief and Degrees of Truth".
Edgington: "Vagueness by Degrees" (in Keefe and Smith).
Tye: "Sorites Paradoxes and the Semantics of Vagueness" (in Keefe
and Smith).
David Sanford (optional): "Borderline Logic".
Goguen (optional): "The Logic of Inexact Concepts".
Wright (optional): "Further Reflections on the Sorites Paradox" (in
Keefe and Smith).
Weeks 6-8: Supervaluations; Fine's Supervaluational Treatment of
Higher-Order Vagueness
Williamson: ch.5 of Vagueness.
Fine: "Vagueness, Truth and Logic" (in Keefe and Smith).
Kamp: "Two Theories about Adjectives".
April 4th: Generics (Morill Hall 111)
April 11th: Contextualism I
Tappenden: "The Liar and Sorites Paradoxes: Toward a Unified
Treatment"
Raffman: "Vagueness without Paradox".
Contextualism II
Kamp: "The Paradox of the Heap"
Soames: Understanding Truth, ch.7
Graff: "Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of
Vagueness"
More on Higher-Order Vagueness:
"On the Structure of Higher-Order Vagueness"
Vague Identity and Vague Objects:
Epistemicism
Cargile: "The Sorites Paradox" (in Keefe and Smith).
Williamson: chs.7–8 of Vagueness.
Williamson: Appendix to Vagueness.
Gomez-Torrente: "Vagueness and Margin for Error Principles".
Graff: "An Anti-Epistemicist Consequence of Margin for Error
Semantics for Knowledge".
The Gomez-Torrente and Graff papers are in Phil Topics vol 64 (in
the file slot in the lounge). Do not steal this book!!!!!
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