Semiotics has had a profound impact on our comprehension of a wide range of phenomena, from how animals signify and communicate, to how people read TV commercia

This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their

Self-reference, although a topic studied by some philosophers and known to a number of other disciplines, has received comparatively little explicit attention.

Rich in precursors (Kant and Frege) and stimulated by Castañeda’s study in the logic of self-consciousness and Shoemaker’s seminal paper ‘Self-reference

This book collects, for the first time in one volume, contributions honoring Professor Raymond Smullyan’s work on self-reference. It serves not only as a trib