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Paradoxes
Taschenbuch von Roy T Cook
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor

Roy T. Cook is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minnesota.

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 200 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745649443
ISBN-10: 0745649440
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cook, Roy T
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 216 x 136 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Roy T Cook
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2013
Gewicht: 0,291 kg
Artikel-ID: 106138142
Über den Autor

Roy T. Cook is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minnesota.

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 200 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745649443
ISBN-10: 0745649440
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cook, Roy T
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 216 x 136 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Roy T Cook
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2013
Gewicht: 0,291 kg
Artikel-ID: 106138142
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