Table of Contents

Self-Reference: Reflections on Reflexivity.- Varieties of Self-Reference.- I: Informal Reflections.- Self-Reference and Meaning in a Natural Language.- Logical Rudeness.- The Pragmatic Paradox.- The Irreflexivity of Knowledge.- Argumentum ad Hominem With and Without Self-Reference Douglas Odegard.- II: Formal Reflections.- Formalized Self-Reference.- Quotation and Self-Reference.- Unstable Solutions to the Liar Paradox.- III: Specific Reflections.- Causation and Self-Reference.- Is Determinism Self-Refuting?.- The Equivocation Defense of Cognitive Relativism.- The Role of Retortion in the Cognitional Analyses of Lonergan and Polanyi.- Reflexivity and the Decentered Self.- IV: Bibliography.- A Bibliography of Works on Reflexivity.- About the Authors.