Table of Contents

JC Beall: Introduction: At the Intersection of Truth and Falsity
Part I: Setting up the Debate
1: Graham Priest: What's So Bad About Contradictions?
Part II: What is the LNC?
2: Ross T. Brady: On the Formalization of the Law of Non-Contradiction
3: Patrick Grim: What is a Contradiction?
4: Greg Restall: Laws of Non-Contradiction, Laws of the Excluded Middle, and Logics
5: R. M. Sainsbury: Option Negation and Dialetheias
6: Achille C. Varzi: Conjunction and Contradiction
Part III: Methodological Issues in the Debate
7: Bradley Armour-Garb: Diagnosing Dialetheism
8: Bryson Brown: Knowledge and Non-Contradiction
9: Otavio Bueno and Mark Colyvan: Logical Non-Apriorism and the 'Law' of Non-Contradiction
10: David Lewis: Letters to Beall and Priest
11: Michael D. Resnik: Holism and the Revision of Logic
Part IV: Against the LNC
12: JC Beall: True and False - As If
13: Jon Cogburn: The Philosophical Basis of What? The Anti-Realist Route to Dialetheism
14: Jay Garfield: To Pee and not to Pee? Could That Be the Question? (Further Reflections of the Dog)
15: Frederick Kroon: Realism and Dialetheism
16: Edwin D. Mares: Semantic Dialetheism
17: Vann McGee: Ramsey's Dialetheism
Part V: For the LNC
18: Laurence Goldstein: The Barber, Russell's Paradox, Catch-22, God, Contradiction, and More
19: Greg Littman and Keith Simmons: A Critique of Dialetheism
20: Stewart Shapiro: Simple Truth, Contradiction, and Consistency
21: Neil Tennant: An Anti-Realist Critique of Dialetheism
22: Alan Weir: There Are No True Contradictions
23: Edward N. Zalta: In Defence of the Law of Non-Contradiction

Reviews

Since dialetheism has, in recent years, scrounged its way from being a view easily defeated by the dreaded incredulous stare to being a major (but still sometimes ignored) contender in the contest for an adequate logical account of the semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes (or an adequate logical theory in general), the volume is to be commended merely for its existence. The fact that it contains, not just a number of good philosophers taking this view seriously, but also a lot of seriously good philosophy increases its worth... The volume begins with an... Roy Cook, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews continued... excellent introduction by JC Beall... As a survey of a difficult subject, Beall's introduction is a tour-de-force and should be required reading for anyone interested in true contradictions or the philosophy of logic more generally... once one views dialetheism as a natural companion to other, supposedly more 'traditional' views such as classicism, intuitionism, and gappy logics, one wonders why it has taken so long for such an excellent volume to appear. Roy Cook, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews