2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
| Project/Area Number |
24520007
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
DIETZ Richard 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 講師 (10625651)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | Vagueness / Definite Truth / Borderline Cases / Higher-Order Vagueness / Impossibility Results |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The outcome of my research is threefold: (I) I have developed an conceptual spaces account of how vagueness and gradability in concepts may emerge. This approach turned out to be very fruitful and has led to a number of papers (published in Synthese, Journal of Philosophical Logic, LNAI). (II) I write a long and thorough critique of the received idea that vagueness is a universally pervasive phenomenon; this idea has led to various logical paradoxes which effectively challenge the very idea that our conception of vague is coherent. The outcome of this is a very long paper, which is under review with the international journal of MIND. (III) I organised a large-scale international conference on vagueness and probability (in 2013) at the University of Tokyo. I am guest-ediitor of a special issue with SYNTHESE, in which more than ten papers that emerged from this conference are going to be published.
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| Free Research Field |
Philosophy of Thought and Language
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