Zeno's paradoxes
By: edited by Wesley C. Salmon.
Series: The Library of liberal arts, LLA148
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Zeno, of Elea.; Paradoxes.
Table of contents: title: Resolution of the paradox, by A. Shimony.; title: Introduction, by W. C. Salmon.; title: The problem of infinity considered historically, by B. Russell.; title: The cinematographic view of becoming, by H. Bergson.; title: Achilles and the tortoise, by M. Black.; title: Achilles on a physical racecourse, by J. O. Wisdom.; title: Tasks and super-tasks, by J. Thomson.; title: Tasks, super-tasks, and the modern Eleatics, by P. Benacerraf.; title: Comments on Professor Benacerraf's paper, by J. Thomson.; title: Zeno and the mathematicians, by G. E. L. Owen.; title: Modern science and refutation of the paradoxes of Zeno. Zeno's metrical paradox of extension. Modern science and Zeno's paradoxes of motion. By A. Grünbaum.; title: Appendix: Sets and infinity, by W. C. Salmon.; title: Bibliography (p. 269-282)