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Informationen zum Autor Rupert Read is reader in philosophy at the University of East Anglia. Klappentext A Wittgensteinian way with paradoxes tackles some of the classic philosophical paradoxes that have puzzled philosophers over the centuries and explores how they can be dissolved using the 'therapeutic' method of Wittgenstein, according to the 'resolute' reading of the latter's work. The book shows how, by contrast, we should give more serious consideration to real, 'lived paradoxes', some of which can be harmful psychically, morally or politically, but others of which can be beneficial. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Paradoxes of (Philosophical) DelusionPart I. Away with Philosophers' ParadoxesChapter 1: Pre-empting Russell's Paradox: Wittgenstein and Frege Against LogicismChapter 2: 'Time Travel': The Very IdeaChapter 3: A Paradox for Chomsky: On Our Being Through and Through 'Inside' LanguageChapter 4: Kripke's Rule-Following Paradox - and Kripke's Conjuring TrickChapter 5: The Unstatability of Kripkian ScepticismsChapter 6: Heaps of Trouble: 'Logically Alien Thought' and the Dissolution of "Sorites" ParadoxesChapter 7: The Dissolution of the 'Surprise Exam' Paradox - and its Implications for Rational Choice Theory Part II. A Way with Lived ParadoxesChapter 8: Swastikas and Cyborgs: The Significance of PI 420, for Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations as a 'War Book'Chapter 9: From Moore's Paradox to 'Wittgenstein's Paradox'?: On Lived Paradox in Cases of (Moral and) Mental Ill-HealthChapter 10: Lived 'Reductio Ad Absurdum': A Paradoxical and Proper Method of Philosophy, and of LifeChapter 11: Leaving Things As It Is (sic.): Philosophy and Life 'After' Wittgenstein and ZenChapter 12: Conclusion: On Lived Paradoxes
