Paradoxes

Paradoxes
Author: Roy T. Cook
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0745665519

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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. In this volume Roy T Cook provides a sophisticated, yet accessible and entertaining, introduction to the study of paradoxes, one that includes a detailed examination of a wide variety of paradoxes. The book is organized around four important types of paradox: the semantic paradoxes involving truth, the set-theoretic paradoxes involving arbitrary collections of objects, the Soritical paradoxes involving vague concepts, and the epistemic paradoxes involving knowledge and belief. In each of these cases, Cook frames the discussion in terms of four different approaches one might take towards solving such paradoxes. Each chapter concludes with a number of exercises that illustrate the philosophical arguments and logical concepts involved in the paradoxes. Paradoxes is the ideal introduction to the topic and will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in a wide variety of disciplines who wish to understand the important role that paradoxes have played, and continue to play, in contemporary philosophy.

The Paradoxes of Freedom

The Paradoxes of Freedom
Author: Sidney Hook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0520347285

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

Paradoxes

Paradoxes
Author: Gareth Southwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007
Genre: Paradox
ISBN: 9781435169968

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Paradoxes

Paradoxes
Author: R. M. Sainsbury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2009-02-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521896320

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A paradox can be defined as an unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises. Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. The expanded and revised third edition of this intriguing book considers a range of knotty paradoxes including Zeno's paradoxical claim that the runner can never overtake the tortoise, a new chapter on paradoxes about morals, paradoxes about belief, and hardest of all, paradoxes about truth. The discussion uses a minimum of technicality but also grapples with complicated and difficult considerations, and is accompanied by helpful questions designed to engage the reader with the arguments. The result is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking.

Paradoxes from A to Z

Paradoxes from A to Z
Author: Michael Clark
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2002
Genre: Paradox
ISBN: 9780415228084

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'This sentence is false'. Is it? If a hotel with an infinite number of rooms is fully occupied, can it still accommodate a new guest? How can we have emotional responses to fiction, when we know that the objects of our emotions do not exist?

On the Brink of Paradox

On the Brink of Paradox
Author: Agustin Rayo
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0262039419

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An introduction to awe-inspiring ideas at the brink of paradox: infinities of different sizes, time travel, probability and measure theory, and computability theory. This book introduces the reader to awe-inspiring issues at the intersection of philosophy and mathematics. It explores ideas at the brink of paradox: infinities of different sizes, time travel, probability and measure theory, computability theory, the Grandfather Paradox, Newcomb's Problem, the Principle of Countable Additivity. The goal is to present some exceptionally beautiful ideas in enough detail to enable readers to understand the ideas themselves (rather than watered-down approximations), but without supplying so much detail that they abandon the effort. The philosophical content requires a mind attuned to subtlety; the most demanding of the mathematical ideas require familiarity with college-level mathematics or mathematical proof. The book covers Cantor's revolutionary thinking about infinity, which leads to the result that some infinities are bigger than others; time travel and free will, decision theory, probability, and the Banach-Tarski Theorem, which states that it is possible to decompose a ball into a finite number of pieces and reassemble the pieces so as to get two balls that are each the same size as the original. Its investigation of computability theory leads to a proof of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, which yields the amazing result that arithmetic is so complex that no computer could be programmed to output every arithmetical truth and no falsehood. Each chapter is followed by an appendix with answers to exercises. A list of recommended reading points readers to more advanced discussions. The book is based on a popular course (and MOOC) taught by the author at MIT.

Paradoxes in Mathematics

Paradoxes in Mathematics
Author: Stanley J. Farlow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 048649716X

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Compiled by a prominent educator and author, this volume presents an intriguing mix of mathematical paradoxes — phenomena with surprising outcomes that can be resolved mathematically. Students and puzzle enthusiasts will get plenty of enjoyment mixed with a bit of painless mathematical instruction from 30 conundrums, including The Birthday Paradox, Aristotle's Magic Wheel, and A Greek Tragedy.

Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes

Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes
Author: Bryan Bunch
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997-07-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486296644

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Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics, and language, including being led astray by algebra (De Morgan's paradox). 1982 edition.

Scientific Paradoxes and Problems

Scientific Paradoxes and Problems
Author: Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1925
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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Zeno's Paradoxes

Zeno's Paradoxes
Author: Wesley C. Salmon
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780872205604

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A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970. These essays lead the reader through the land of the wonderful shrinking genie to the warehouse where the infinity machines are kept. By careful examination of a lamp that is switched on and off infinitely many times, or the workings of a machine that prints out an infinite decimal expansion of pi, we begin to understand how it is possible for Achilles to overtake the tortoise. The concepts that form the basis of modern science---space, time, motion, change, infinity---are examined and explored in this edition. Includes an updated bibliography.