Paradoxes
By: Roy T. Cook
Series: Polity key concepts in philosophy
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780745649436; 9780745649443
Subjects: Philosophy; Paradox; Logic
Description: Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth, knowledge, and belief.
Table of contents: title: The care and feeding of your new paradoxes; title: The truth about truth; title: The title of this chapter will have its revenge; title: Some collections are bigger and badder than others; title: Bald, not bald, and kinda bald; title: What we know about what we know; title: Conclusion: many paradoxes, one solution?