Table of Contents

Richard Dietz & Sebastiano Moruzzi: Introduction
I. The Nature of Vagueness
Part 1. What is Vagueness?
1: Agustin Rayo: A Metasemantic Account of Vagueness
2: Scott Soames: The Possibility of Partial Definition
3: Matti Eklund: Vagueness and Second-Level Indeterminacy
4: Brian Weatherson: Vagueness as Indeterminacy
5: Dorothy Edgington: Sorensen on Vagueness and Contradiction
Part 2. Vagueness in Reality
6: Stephen Schiffer: Vague Properties
7: Nathan Salmon: Vagaries about Vagueness
8: Stewart Shapiro: Vagueness, Metaphysics, and Objectivity
Part 3. Tolerance and Paradox
9: Sven Rosenkranz: Agnosticism and Vagueness
10: Jc Beall: Vague Intensions: A Modest Marriage Proposal
11: Hartry Field: This Magic Moment: Horwich on the Boundary of Vague Terms
12: Leon Horsten: Perceptual Indiscriminability and the Concept of a Color Shade
13: Mario Gómez-Torrente: The Sorites, Linguistic Preconceptions, and the Dual Picture of Vagueness
14: Peter Pagin: Vagueness and Central Gaps
Part 4. Vagueness in Context
15: Jonas Åkerman & Patrick Greenough: Hold the Context Fixed - Vagueness Still Remains
16: Andrea Iacona: Saying More (or Less) Than One Thing
17: Max Kölbel: Vagueness as Semantic
18: Dan López De Sa: How to Respond to Borderline Cases
II. The Logic of Vagueness
Part 5. Supervaluationism
19: Manuel García-Carpintero: Supervaluationism and the Report of Vague Contents
20: Rosanna Keefe: Supervaluationism, Indirect Speech Reports, and Demonstratives
21: Delia Graff Fara: Scope Confusions and Unsatisfiable Disjuncts: Two Problems for Supervaluationism
Part 6. Paraconsistent logics
22: Dominic Hyde: The Prospects of a Paraconsistent Response to Vagueness
23: Graham Priest: Non-Transitive Identity
Part 7. Many-Valued Logics
24: Graeme Forbes: Identity and the Facts of the Matter
25: John MacFarlane: Fuzzy Epistemicism
26: Mark Richard: Indeterminacy and Truth Value Gaps
27: Peter Simons: Supernumeration: Vagueness and Numbers
28: Nicholas J. J. Smith: Degree of Belief is Expected Truth Value
Part 8. Higher-Order Vagueness
29: Diana Raffman: Demoting Higher-Order Vagueness
30: Crispin Wright: The Illusion of Higher-Order Vagueness
31: Cian Dorr: Iterating Definiteness

About the Author

Richard Dietz received his PhD from the University of Oxford. He has held research positions at the Arché Research Centre in St Andrews and the Institute for Philosophical Research in Mexico City. He is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Logic and Analytical Philosophical, at the Institute of Philosophy, University of
Leuven.; Sebastiano Moruzzi received his PhD from the University of Eastern Piedmont "Amedeo Avogradro". He has held a research position at the Arché Research Centre in St Andrews. He is currently Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bologna.

Reviews

A knowledgeable reader has the rare opportunity to watch philosophy in progress while following a vital debate between the worlds leading experts on vagueness.
*Tania Eden, Journal of General Philosophical Science*

Cuts and Clouds contains many novel, interesting theses on most of the questions discussed in the recent literature on vagueness. Philosophers with an interest in the contemporary debate (and its future development) should not miss this volume.
*Pablo Cobreros, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*