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Personal Identity

Vagueness

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. Vagueness is a wide and interesting area of enquiry, and I will restrict most of my investigations to areas relevant to personal identity. So,
     1. While there can be clear paradigm cases it may be vague (ie. uncertain, or indeterminate) whether some particular instance is a paradigm case.
     2. There can be vague boundaries to the concept person².
     3. Also, maybe there can be persons of varying degrees³.
     4. Maybe some higher mammals possess many of the qualities of persons, but to a reduced degree.
        
  2. All this is covered, more or less, in this chapter under other topics, including Vague Identity⁴, Indeterminate Identity⁵ and Sorites⁶ and in Chapter 7⁷ under the Problem of the Many⁸.

References

• Relevant Works cited above: No items to list.
• For a Page of Links⁹ to this Note, Click here. Even though I suppressed the cognate “vague”, there are still too many links to process at the moment, but a useful source for future investigation.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁰, include the following:-
  • Aeon:
    1. "Williamson (Timothy) - On vagueness, or, when is a heap of sand not a heap of sand?", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
  • General:
    1. "Evans (Gareth) - Can There Be Vague Objects?", 1978, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Garrett (Brian) - Identity and Vagueness", 1998
    3. "Hossack (Keith) - Vagueness and Personal Identity", 2006
    4. "Robinson (Howard) - Vagueness, Realism, Language and Thought", 2008, Internal PDF Link
• Given that this topic is slightly tangential to my main topic, and the literature is vast, I need to be highly selective₁₁. So, a further reading list (where not covered elsewhere₁₂) might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Metaphysical Vagueness", 2007
    2. "Barnes (Elizabeth) - Indeterminacy, Identity and Counterparts: Evans Reconsidered", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    3. "Barnes (Elizabeth) - Vagueness in sparseness: a study in property ontology", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Vagueness, phenomenal concepts and mind-brain identity", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Black (Max) - Vagueness: an Exercise in Logical Analysis", 1937, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Braun (David) & Sider (Ted) - Vague, so Untrue", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    7. "Broome (John) - Is incommensurability vagueness?", 1997, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    8. "Doyle (Robert O.) - Vagueness", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Dummett (Michael) - Wang's Paradox", 1975, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Duncan (Craig) - Do Vague Probabilities Really Scotch Pascal's Wager?", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    11. "Eklund (Matti) - Supervaluationism, Vagueifiers, and Semantic Overdetermination", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    12. "Eklund (Matti) - What Vagueness Consists in", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    13. "Everett (Theodore J.) - A Simple Logic for Comparisons and Vagueness", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Field (Hartry) - No Fact of the Matter", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Field (Hartry) - The Semantic Paradoxes and the Paradoxes of Vagueness", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Field (Hartry) - This Magic Moment: Horwich on the Boundaries of Vague Terms", 2010, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Field (Hartry) - Vagueness, Partial Belief and Logic", 2016, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    18. "Fine (Kit) - Vagueness, Truth and Logic", 1975, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Greenough (Patrick) - Contextualism About Vagueness And Higher-Order Vagueness", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Greenough (Patrick) - Vagueness: A Crash Course", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Greenough (Patrick) - Vagueness: A Minimal Theory", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Gross (Steven) - Trivalent Semantics and the Vaguely Vague", 2007, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Gross (Steven) - Vagueness, Indirect Speech Reports, and the World", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Hawley (Katherine) - Vagueness", 2001
    25. "Heller (Mark) - Against Metaphysical Vagueness", 1996, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Hempel (Carl) - Vagueness and Logic", 1939, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    27. "Hudson (Hud) - Vagueness and Composition", 2001
    28. "Hull (Gerald) - Bipolar Disorder: Horgan on Vagueness and Incoherence", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    29. "Hull (Gerald) - Vagueness and 'Vague': A Reply to Varzi", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Jackman (Henry) - Temporal Externalism and Epistemic Theories of Vagueness", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Keefe (Rosanna) - Vagueness by Numbers", 1998, Internal PDF Link
    32. "Keefe (Rosanna) & Smith (Peter) - Vagueness: A Reader", 2002, Book, Read = 13%
    33. "Koslicki (Kathrin) - The Crooked Path From Vagueness To Four-Dimensionalism", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Machina (Kenton F.) - Truth, Belief and Vagueness", 1976, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    35. "Merricks (Trenton) - Varieties of Vagueness", 2001, Internal PDF Link
    36. "Miller (Kristie) - Blocking the path from vagueness to four dimensionalism", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    37. "Miller (Kristie) - Vagueness, Persistence and Indeterminate Identity", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    38. "Rayo (Agustin) - A Metasemantic Account of Vagueness", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    39. "Rosenkranz (Sven) - Knowledge in Borderline Cases", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    40. "Russell (Bertrand) - Vagueness", 1923, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    41. "Sainsbury (Mark) - Is There Higher-Order Vagueness?", 1991, Internal PDF Link
    42. "Sainsbury (Mark) - What Is a Vague Object?", 1989, Internal PDF Link
    43. "Sanford (David H.) - Borderline Logic", 1975, Internal PDF Link
    44. "Shapiro (Stewart) - Context, Conversation, And So-Called ‘Higher-Order Vagueness’", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    45. "Sider (Ted) - Against Vague and Unnatural Existence - Reply to Liebesman and Eklund", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    46. "Smith (Nicholas J.J.) - Vagueness as Closeness", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    47. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Indeterminacy and Vagueness: Logic and Metaphysics", 2009, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    48. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Why Vagueness Is A Mystery", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    49. "Varzi (Achille) - Change, Temporal Parts, and the Argument from Vagueness", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    50. "Varzi (Achille) - Higher-Order Vagueness and the Vagueness of 'Vague'", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    51. "Varzi (Achille) - Vagueness and 'Vague': Rejoinder to Hull", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    52. "Varzi (Achille) - Vagueness, Indiscernibility, and Pragmatics: Comments on Burns", 1995, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    53. "Varzi (Achille) & Collins (John) - Unsharpenable Vagueness", 2000, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    54. "Weatherson (Brian) - Vagueness as Indeterminacy", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    55. "Weatherson (Brian) - Vagueness Without Toleration: Reply to Greenough", 2003+, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    56. "Wheeler (Samuel C.) - Reference and Vagueness", 1975, Internal PDF Link
    57. "Williamson (Timothy) - Truth, Falsity and Borderline Cases", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    58. "Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness", 2005 / 1994, Book, Read = 4%
    59. "Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness in Reality", 2003, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    60. "Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz's Law", 2002, Read = 15%
    61. "Williamson (Timothy) & Simons (Peter) - Vagueness and Ignorance", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
• For further papers held on-line of potential interest, follow this Link¹³. Total papers = 2.

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder¹⁴.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 11:

• So, I’ve selected the standard reader and papers / chapters by my favourite authors that might be included under other topics.

Footnote 12:

• In particular, those covered under the Notes on Vague and Indeterminate Identity.

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Table of the Previous 9 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
20/09/2022 11:24:00	4998	Vagueness
01/05/2022 18:20:10	4617	Vagueness
19/02/2021 00:23:02	4508	Vagueness
01/10/2020 00:24:29	2141	Vagueness
17/01/2018 13:43:41	3370	Vagueness
14/01/2017 20:18:14	1123	Vagueness
18/12/2010 19:58:05	389	Vagueness
26/11/2007 23:25:26	377	Vagueness
12/08/2007 10:17:46	80	Vagueness

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Vagueness	Research - Proposal

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Degrees of Personhood	Indeterminate Identity	Note Links Explanation	Person
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage	Plug Note Apologia	Problem of the Many	Sorites	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)
Vague Identity	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - Personal Identity Over Time	Change	Concepts	Continuity	Convention
Death	Essentialism	Fetuses	Indeterminate Identity	Olson - What Are We? Animals
Olson - What Are We? The Question	Phase Sortals	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15	Problem of the Many, 2	Research - Focus
RIP: The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts	Sorites	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)
Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Thesis - Current Stance
Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15	Thinking Animal Argument	Vague Identity	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity Over Time	Paper		Yes
Doyle (Robert O.)	N/A	Author
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper		Yes
RIP	The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Change	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Concepts	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Convention	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Essentialism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fetuses	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Indeterminate Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Phase Sortals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Problem of the Many	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Sorites	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thinking Animal Argument	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Vague Identity	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Ackerman (Felicia)	Roots and Consequences of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 8, Logic and Language, 1994, pp. 129-136	No
Andjelkovic (Miroslava) & Williamson (Timothy)	Truth, Falsity and Borderline Cases	Paper - By Subtopic	Published in Philosophical Topics 28 (2000): pp. 211-244	No
Arche	Vagueness Bibliography	Paper - By Subtopic	Arche	No
Aristotelian Society	Proceedings: 1995	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Aristotelian Society - Proceedings: 1995	0%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Metaphysical Vagueness	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 6	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity Over Time	Paper - Referencing	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 5, pp. 118-146	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	2%
Balashov (Yuri)	On Vagueness, 4D and Diachronic Universalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005)	No
Barnes (Elizabeth)	Indeterminacy, Identity and Counterparts: Evans Reconsidered	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 168, No. 1 (May, 2009), pp. 81-96	7%
Barnes (Elizabeth)	Vagueness and Arbitrariness: Merricks on Composition	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, Vol. 116, No. 461 (Jan., 2007), pp. 105-113	No
Barnes (Elizabeth)	Vagueness in sparseness: a study in property ontology	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 65, October 2005, pp. 315-321(7)	No
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	Vagueness, phenomenal concepts and mind-brain identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis; Apr2004, Vol. 64 Issue 2, p134-139, 6p	No
Black (Max)	Vagueness: an Exercise in Logical Analysis	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy of Science, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Oct., 1937), pp. 427-455	No
Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds.	Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds. - Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	1%
Braun (David) & Sider (Ted)	Vague, so Untrue	Paper - By Subtopic	Noûs 41 (2007): 133–156	11%
Broome (John)	Is incommensurability vagueness?	Paper - By Subtopic	Ruth Chang (ed.) Incommensurability, Comparability and Pracatical Reason, Harvard University Press, 1997	7%
Burgess (J.A.)	The Sorites Paradox and Higher-Order Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Dec., 1990), pp. 417-474	No
Cargile (James)	The Sorites Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic	The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Oct., 1969), pp. 193-202	No
Chen (Eddy Keming)	Fundamental Nomic Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review, Vol. 131, No. 1, 2022	9%
Diogenes Laertius, Galen & Cicero	On the Sorites	Paper - By Subtopic	Keefe - Vagueness: A Reader	No
Doyle (Robert O.)	Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Personal Website	No
Dummett (Michael)	Truth and Other Enigmas	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Dummett (Michael) - Truth and Other Enigmas	1%
Dummett (Michael)	Wang's Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 30, No. 3/4, On the Logic Semantics of Vagueness (Apr. - May, 1975), pp. 301-324	No
Duncan (Craig)	Do Vague Probabilities Really Scotch Pascal's Wager?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Volume 112, Number 3, February 2003, pp. 279-290(12)	8%
Edgington (Dorothy)	Vagueness By Degrees	Paper - By Subtopic	Keefe - Vagueness: A Reader	No
Edgington (Dorothy)	Williamson on Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz's Law	Paper - By Subtopic	Bottani - Individuals, Essence and Identity, 2002	No
Eklund (Matti)	Inconsistent Languages	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Mar., 2002), pp. 251-275	5%
Eklund (Matti)	Supervaluationism, Vagueifiers, and Semantic Overdetermination	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialectica, Vol. 55, No. 4 (2001), pp. 363-378	7%
Eklund (Matti)	What Vagueness Consists in	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 125, No. 1 (Jul., 2005), pp. 27-60	3%
Elder (Crawford)	A Partial Response to Compositional Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Elder - Real Natures, 2004, Chapter 6	No
Elder (Crawford)	Real Natures and Familiar Objects	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Elder (Crawford) - Real Natures and Familiar Objects	No
Evans (Gareth)	Can There Be Vague Objects?	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), p. 208	Yes
Everett (Theodore J.)	A Simple Logic for Comparisons and Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 123, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 263-278	No
Field (Hartry)	No Fact of the Matter	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2003, pp. 457-480	No
Field (Hartry)	The Semantic Paradoxes and the Paradoxes of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Beall and Glanzberg, eds., Liars and Heaps (Oxford University Press 2003), pp. 262-311	No
Field (Hartry)	This Magic Moment: Horwich on the Boundaries of Vague Terms	Paper - By Subtopic	Richard Dietz & Sebastiano Moruzzi (eds.), Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic. Oxford University Press (2010)	No
Field (Hartry)	Vagueness, Partial Belief and Logic	Paper - By Subtopic	G. Ostertag, ed., Meanings and Other Things: Essays on Stephen Schiffer, December 2016	No
Fine (Kit)	Vagueness, Truth and Logic	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese , Vol. 30, No. 3/4, On the Logic Semantics of Vagueness (Apr. - May, 1975), pp. 265-300	No
Garrett (Brian)	Identity and Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Garrett - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness, 1998, Chapter 5	Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Personal Identity and Self-consciousness	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness	Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Vagueness and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Jun., 1988), pp. 130-134	No
Greenough (Patrick)	Contextualism About Vagueness And Higher-Order Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Supplement to the Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society, Volume 79, Number 1, July 2005, pp. 167-190(24)	No
Greenough (Patrick)	Vagueness: A Crash Course	Paper - By Subtopic	St. Andrew's Website; May 12th-16th 2003.	No
Greenough (Patrick)	Vagueness: A Minimal Theory	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind - 112/446 (April 2003)	No
Grim (Patrick)	The buried quantifier: an account of vagueness and the sorites	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 65.2, April 2005, pp. 95-104(10)	No
Gross (Steven)	Trivalent Semantics and the Vaguely Vague	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese 156 (1):97-117 (2007)	No
Gross (Steven)	Vagueness, Indirect Speech Reports, and the World	Paper - By Subtopic	Proto Sociology Vol. 17, 2002, Semantic Theory and Reported Speech	No
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: T-Z	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	21%
Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds.	A Companion to the Philosophy of Language	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds. - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language	4%
Hawley (Katherine)	Borderline Simple or Extremely Simple	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, Jul2004, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p385-404, 20p	11%
Hawley (Katherine)	How Things Persist	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hawley (Katherine) - How Things Persist	5%
Hawley (Katherine)	Indeterminism and Indeterminacy	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis Vol. 58.2 (1998) pp. 101-106	33%
Hawley (Katherine)	Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Hawley - How Things Persist, Chapter 4	No
Hawley (Katherine)	Vagueness and Existence	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society CII (2001-2), pp. 125-140	8%
Hawthorne (John)	Vagueness and the Mind of God	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies; Jan2005, Vol. 122 Issue 1, p1-25, 25p	No
Heller (Mark)	Vagueness and the Standard Ontology	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1988 A.P.A. Central Division Meetings, Mar., 1988, pp. 109-131	No
Hempel (Carl)	Vagueness and Logic	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy of Science, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Apr., 1939), pp. 163-180	No
Horgan (Terence)	Robust Vagueness and the Forced-March Sorites Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 8, Logic and Language, 1994, pp. 159-188	No
Hossack (Keith)	Vagueness and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	MacBride - Identity and Modality, 2006, Chapter 10	Yes
Howard-Snyder (Frances)	De Re Modality Entails De Re Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	No
Hudson (Hud)	A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person	2%
Hudson (Hud)	Vagueness and Composition	Paper - By Subtopic	Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, 2001, Chapter 3, pp. 72-112	No
Hull (Gerald)	Bipolar Disorder: Horgan on Vagueness and Incoherence	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese 143 (3):351-369 (2005)	No
Jackman (Henry)	Temporal Externalism and Epistemic Theories of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 117: 79–94, 2004.	No
Jackson (Frank) & Priest (Graham), Eds.	Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Jackson (Frank) & Priest (Graham), Eds. - Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis	5%
Jones (Nicholas K.)	Too Many Cats: The Problem of the Many and the Metaphysics of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Ph.D. Dissertation, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2010	No
Keefe (Rosanna) & Smith (Peter)	Theories of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Keefe - Vagueness: A Reader	88%
Keefe (Rosanna) & Smith (Peter)	Vagueness: A Reader	Book - Cited	Keefe (Rosanna) & Smith (Peter) - Vagueness: A Reader	13%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	The Crooked Path From Vagueness To Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 114, No. 1/2, Selected Papers from the 2002 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference at Western Washington University (May, 2003), pp. 107-134	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Vagueness and Endurance	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 65.2, April 2005, pp. 104-112(9)	No
MacBride (Fraser), Ed.	Identity and Modality	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	MacBride (Fraser), Ed. - Identity and Modality	5%
Machina (Kenton F.)	Truth, Belief and Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Feb., 1976), pp. 47-78	No
Marshall (Richard)	Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers	37%
Marshall (Richard) & Williamson (Timothy)	Timothy Williamson: Classical lnvestigations	Paper - By Subtopic	Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers	No
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed.	Mind - 112/446 (April 2003)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed. - Mind - 112/446 (April 2003)	50%
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed.	Mind - 114/455 (July 2005)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed. - Mind - 114/455 (July 2005)	No
McGee (Vann)	Truth, Vagueness & Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic		No
Mehlberg (Henryk)	Truth and Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Keefe - Vagueness: A Reader	No
Merricks (Trenton)	Composition and Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 114, Number 455, July 2005, pp. 615-637(23)	No
Merricks (Trenton)	Remarks on Vagueness and Arbitrariness	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, Vol. 116, No. 461 (Jan., 2007), pp. 115-119	No
Merricks (Trenton)	Varieties of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 145-157	No
Miller (Kristie)	Blocking the path from vagueness to four dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Ratio 18 (3):317–331 (2005)	8%
Morton (Adam)	Where Demonstratives Meet Vagueness: Possible Languages	Paper - By Subtopic	Website	No
Needle (Justin)	Alphabetical Bibliography on Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic	Website	No
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Peirce (Charles S.)	How to Make Our Ideas Clear	Paper - By Subtopic	Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878), 286-302	No
Prinz (Jesse)	Vagueness, Language and Ontology	Paper - By Subtopic	The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Website	No
Putnam (Hilary)	Philosophical Papers 3 - Realism and Reason	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Putnam (Hilary) - Philosophical Papers 3 - Realism and Reason	No
Putnam (Hilary)	Vagueness and Alternative Logic	Paper - By Subtopic	Putnam - Philosophical Papers 3 - Realism and Reason	No
Quine (W.V.)	Vagaries of Reference	Paper - By Subtopic	Quine - Word & Object, Chapter 4	No
Quine (W.V.)	Word & Object	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Quine (W.V.) - Word & Object	No
Ray (Greg)	Williamson's Master Argument on Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 138, No. 2 (Jan., 2004), pp. 175-206	No
Rayo (Agustin)	A Metasemantic Account of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Website; 2004. Richard Dietz & Sebastiano Moruzzi (eds.), Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature, and its Logic. Oxford University Press. pp. 23-45 (2010)	No
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader	41%
RIP	The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts	Paper - Referencing	RIP, Various Dates	17%
Robinson (Howard)	Vagueness, Realism, Language and Thought	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Monday 8 December 2008	Yes
Rosen (Gideon) & Smith (Nicholas J.J.)	Wordly Indeterminacy: A Rough Guide	Paper - By Subtopic	Jackson - Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis, Chapter 16	No
Rosenkranz (Sven)	Knowledge in Borderline Cases	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis; Jan. 2005, Vol. 65 Issue 1, p49-55, 7p	No
Russell (Bertrand)	Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 1 (June 1923): 84-92	No
Sainsbury (Mark)	Concepts Without Boundaries	Paper - By Subtopic	Keefe - Vagueness: A Reader	No
Sainsbury (Mark)	Is There Higher-Order Vagueness?	Paper - By Subtopic	The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), Vol. 41, No. 163 (Apr., 1991), pp. 167-182	No
Sainsbury (Mark)	Paradoxes	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sainsbury (Mark) - Paradoxes	8%
Sainsbury (Mark)	Tolerating Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 89 (1988 - 1989), pp. 33-48	No
Sainsbury (Mark)	Vagueness: the paradox of the heap	Paper - By Subtopic	Sainsbury - Paradoxes, 2nd Edition, 1995, Chapter 2	No
Sainsbury (Mark) & Williamson (Timothy)	Sorites	Paper - By Subtopic	Hale & Wright - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language	No
Sanford (David H.)	Borderline Logic	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1975), pp. 29-39	No
Schiffer (Stephen)	Two Issues of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 81, No. 2, Vagueness (April 1998), pp. 193-214	No
Shapiro (Stewart)	Context, Conversation, And So-Called ‘Higher-Order Vagueness’	Paper - By Subtopic	Supplement to the Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society, Volume 79, Number 1, July 2005, pp. 147-165(19)	No
Sider (Ted)	Against Vague and Unnatural Existence - Reply to Liebesman and Eklund	Paper - By Subtopic	Noûs 43 (2009): 557–67	17%
Sider (Ted)	Hell and Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Faith and Philosophy 19 (2002): 58–68	22%
Simons (Peter)	Multivalence and Vagueness: A Reply to Copeland	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1995	No
Smith (Nicholas J.J.)	Vagueness and Blurry Sets	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophical Logic 33 (2004) 165-235	No
Smith (Nicholas J.J.)	Vagueness as Closeness	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83 (2005) 157-83	No
Sorensen (Roy)	Conflict Vagueness and Precisification	Paper - By Subtopic	Thought Experiments, Roy A. Sorensen, 1992, Chapter 7	No
Sorensen (Roy)	Thought Experiments	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sorensen (Roy) - Thought Experiments	4%
Sorensen (Roy)	Vagueness, Measurement, and Blurriness	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Apr., 1988), pp. 45-82	No
Tappenden (Jamie)	The Liar and Sorites Paradoxes: Toward a Unified Treatment	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 90.11, Nov. 1993, pp. 551-577	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper - Referencing		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Problem of the Many	Paper - Referencing		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Sorites	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Travis (Charles)	Vagueness, Observation, and Sorites	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, Vol. 94, No. 375, Jul., 1985, pp. 345-366	No
Tye (Michael)	Sorites Paradoxes and the Semantics of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 8, Logic and Language (1994), pp. 189-206	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Indeterminacy and Vagueness: Logic and Metaphysics	Paper - By Subtopic	European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1: 1-19 (2009)	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Why Vagueness Is A Mystery	Paper - By Subtopic	Acta Analytica 17: 11-17	No
Varzi (Achille)	Change, Temporal Parts, and the Argument from Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialectica 59:4 (2005), 485–498	No
Varzi (Achille)	Cut-offs and their Neighbors	Paper - By Subtopic	J. C. Beall (ed.) Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 24-38	No
Varzi (Achille)	Vagueness, Indiscernibility, and Pragmatics: Comments on Burns	Paper - By Subtopic	Southern Journal of Philosophy 33 Supplement (1995), 49-62	No
Varzi (Achille) & Collins (John)	Unsharpenable Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Topics 28:1 (2000), 1-10	No
Vieru (Vlad)	Vague Concepts and Sorites Paradoxes	Paper - By Subtopic	Website	No
Wasserman (Ryan)	Vagueness and the Laws of Metaphysics	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 95 (2017): 66-89.	5%
Weatherson (Brian)	Epistemicism Parasites and Vague Names	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81 (2003): 276-9	No
Weatherson (Brian)	Many Many Problems	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, 2003, Vol. 53: 481-501	No
Weatherson (Brian)	Three Objections to Smith on Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Website; June 2004	No
Weatherson (Brian)	Vagueness as Indeterminacy	Paper - By Subtopic	Website; Very drafty, references etc incomplete; July 20, 2008; Richard Dietz & Sebastiano Moruzzi (eds.), Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic. Oxford University Press (2010)	No
Weatherson (Brian)	Vagueness Without Toleration: Reply to Greenough	Paper - By Subtopic	Website	No
Weiner (Matt)	Deductive Closure and the Sorites	Paper - By Subtopic	Website	No
Wheeler (Samuel C.)	Reference and Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 30, No. 3/4, On the Logic Semantics of Vagueness (Apr. - May, 1975), pp. 367-379	No
Williams (J. Robbie G.)	An Argument for the Many	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 106 (2006), pp. 411-419	No
Williams (J. Robbie G.)	Multiple Actualities and Ontically Vague Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 230, Special Issue: Existence and Identity (Jan., 2008), pp. 134-154	11%
Williamson (Timothy)	Inexact Knowledge	Paper - By Subtopic	Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Chapter 8	No
Williamson (Timothy)	On vagueness, or, when is a heap of sand not a heap of sand?	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 15 November, 2016	Yes
Williamson (Timothy)	Supervaluations	Paper - By Subtopic	Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Chapter 5	No
Williamson (Timothy)	The Ideal of Precision	Paper - By Subtopic	Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Chapter 2	No
Williamson (Timothy)	The Logic of Clarity	Paper - By Subtopic	Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Appendix	No
Williamson (Timothy)	The Rehabilitation of Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Chapter 3	No
Williamson (Timothy)	Truth, Falsity and Borderline Cases	Paper - By Subtopic	Website. Philosophical Topics 28 (2000): pp. 211-244	No
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness	Book - By Subtopic	Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness	4%
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness as Ignorance	Paper - By Subtopic	Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Chapter 7	No
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness in Reality	Paper - By Subtopic	M. J. Loux and D.W. Zimmerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (OUP, 2003)	No
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness in the World	Paper - By Subtopic	Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Chapter 9	No
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz's Law	Paper - By Subtopic	Bottani - Individuals, Essence and Identity, 2002	15%
Williamson (Timothy) & Simons (Peter)	Vagueness and Ignorance	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 66 (1992), pp. 145-177	No
Wright (Crispin)	Further Reflections on the Sorites Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Topics, Vol. 15, No. 1, Philosophy of Language (Spring 1987), pp. 227-290	No
Wright (Crispin)	Language-mastery and the Sorites Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic	Keefe - Vagueness: A Reader	No

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