Paradoxes (Interpretations) (Interpretations)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: September 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780715624265
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Speculative Philosophy; Philosophy; Logic; Nonfiction / Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Paradox
First sentence: Paradoxically, perhaps the most available and economical, and reliable, path to immortality is this: invent a paradox.
Description: "Paradoxes are many things. Artificial intelligence views them as viruses of the brain, strange replicators that unexpectedly exploit design possibilities. For the child, they are intellectual cartwheels, an everyday delight. For mathematicians and logicians, they reveal skeletons in the closet of reason. For philosophers and dramatists, they capture the contradictions of experience. The historian of ideas sees that they come in successive waves, surging through Classical Greece, the Renaissance and the twentieth century. Professor Leiber's user-'friendly guide to paradoxes provides an up-to-date survey of an ancient and perennial source of puzzlement. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.