Table of Contents

Part I. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. Background on set theory; Part II. Vicious Circles: 3. Circularity in computer science; 4. Circularity in philosophy; 5. Circularity and paradox; Part III. Basic Theory: 6. The solution dilemma; 7. Bisimulation; Part IV. Elementary applications: 8. Graphs; 9. Modal logic; 10. Streams; 11. Games; 12. Modeling the semantic paradoxes; Part V. Further Theory: 13. Greatest fixed points; 14. Uniform operators; 15. Corecursion; Part VI. Further Applications: 16. Some applications; 17. Modeling partial information; 18. Circularity and the notion of set; 19. Conclusions and future directions.

About the Author

Jon Barwise (1942-2000) was professor of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science at Indiana University and one of the founding members of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Lawrence S. Moss is professor of mathematics; director of the Program in Pure and Applied Logic; an adjunct professor of computer science, informatics, linguistics, and philosophy; and a member of the Programs in Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics, all at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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