Contraction and revision

Authors

  • Shawn Standefer University of Melbourne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v13i3.3935

Abstract

An important question for proponents of non-contractive approaches to paradox is why contraction fails. Zardini offers an answer, namely that paradoxical sentences exhibit a kind of instability. I elaborate this idea using revision theory, and I argue that while instability does motivate failures of contraction, it equally motivates failure of many principles that non-contractive theorists want to maintain.

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Author Biography

Shawn Standefer, University of Melbourne

Postdoctoral research fellow

School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Philosophy

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Published

2016-04-16