Paradoxes

Informationen zum Autor Roy T. Cook is associate professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minnesota. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung * This is the next book in the Key Concepts in Philosophy series focusing on the core and difficult topic of paradoxes. * An accessible and entertaining introduction to the study of paradoxes! in which the author provides a detailed examination of a wide variety of paradoxes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 1 The Care and Feeding of your New Paradoxes 9 2 The Truth about Truth 30 3 The Title of this Chapter Will Have its Revenge 62 4 Some Collections are Bigger and Badder than Others 91 5 Bald, Not Bald, and Kinda Bald 128 6 What We Know about What We Know 156 Conclusion: Many Paradoxes, One Solution? 186 References 197 Index 203

Product details

• Authors: R Cook, Roy T Cook, Roy T. Cook, Roy T. (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) Cook
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2013
• EAN: 9780745649436
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-4943-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Polity Key Concepts in Philosophy; Polity Key Concepts in Philoso; Key Concepts in Philosophy; Polity Key Concepts in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy: logic, Paradoxes, logic, introduction