Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth: The Boolean Many-Valued Approach

Ken Akiba is an associate professor of philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. His areas of specialty are philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. His particular interest over the years has been on vagueness and indeterminacy. He has published papers on vagueness in such journals as Mind, Noûs, Synthese, and Journal of Philosophical Logic. He is the co-editor of Vague Objects and Vague Identity: New Essays on Ontic Vagueness (Springer, 2014) and author of The Philosophy Major's Introduction to Philosophy: Concepts and Distinctions (Routledge, 2021). His work on vagueness and indeterminacy has recently been featured in such introductory textbooks as Alyssa Ney, Metaphysics, 2nd edn. (Routledge, 2023), and Alessandro Torza, Indeterminacy in the World (Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics, 2023). He has just written an encyclopedia article on vagueness for H. Nesi & M. Pilin (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition (Elsevier).

Ken Akiba 是維吉尼亞聯邦大學的哲學副教授。他的專業領域包括哲學邏輯、語言哲學和形而上學。多年來，他特別關注模糊性和不確定性。他在《Mind》、《Noûs》、《Synthese》和《Journal of Philosophical Logic》等期刊上發表了有關模糊性的論文。他是《Vague Objects and Vague Identity: New Essays on Ontic Vagueness》（Springer, 2014）的共同編輯，也是《The Philosophy Major's Introduction to Philosophy: Concepts and Distinctions》（Routledge, 2021）的作者。他在模糊性和不確定性方面的研究最近出現在一些入門教科書中，如 Alyssa Ney 的《Metaphysics, 2nd edn.》（Routledge, 2023）和 Alessandro Torza 的《Indeterminacy in the World》（Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics, 2023）。他剛為 H. Nesi 和 M. Pilin 編輯的《International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition》（Elsevier）撰寫了一篇有關模糊性的百科全書文章。