Paradoxes /
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Author / Creator: | Sainsbury, R. M. (Richard Mark) |
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Edition: | 3rd ed. |
Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2009. |
Description: | vii, 182 p. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8208827 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword to third edition
- Introduction
- Suggested reading
- 1. Zeno's paradoxes: space, time, and motion
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Space
- 1.3. The Racetrack
- 1.4. The Racetrack again
- 1.5. Achilles and the Tortoise
- 1.6. The Arrow
- Suggested reading
- 2. Moral paradoxes
- 2.1. Crime reduction
- 2.2. Mixed blessings
- 2.3. Not being sorry
- 2.4. Moral dilemmas
- Suggested reading
- 3. Vagueness: the paradox of the heap
- 3.1. Sorites paradoxes: preliminaries
- 3.2. Sorites paradoxes: some options
- 3.3. Accepting the conclusion: Unger's view
- 3.4. Rejecting the premises: the epistemic theory
- 3.5. Rejecting the premises: supervaluations
- 3.6. Rejecting the reasoning: degrees of truth
- 3.7. Vague objects?
- Suggested reading
- 4. Acting rationally
- 4.1. Newcomb's paradox
- 4.2. The Prisoner's Dilemma
- Suggested reading
- 5. Believing rationally
- 5.1. Paradoxes of confirmation
- 5.1.1. Background
- 5.1.2. The paradox of the Ravens
- 5.1.3. 'Grue'
- 5.2. The Unexpected Examination
- 5.3. Revising the Unexpected Examination
- 5.4. The Knower
- Suggested reading
- 6. Classes and truth
- 6.1. Russell's paradox
- 6.2. The Liar: semantic defects
- 6.3. Grounding and truth
- 6.4. The Strengthened Liar
- 6.5. Levels
- 6.6. Self-reference
- 6.7. Indexicality
- 6.8. Indexical circularity
- 6.9. Comparison: how similar are Russell's paradox and the Liar?
- Suggested reading
- 7. Are any contradictions acceptable?
- 7.1. Contradictions entail everything
- 7.2. A sentence which is both true and false could have no intelligible content
- 7.3. Three dualities
- 7.4. Negation
- 7.5. Falsehood and untruth
- Suggested reading
- Appendix I. Some more paradoxes
- Appendix II. Remarks on some text questions and appended paradoxes
- Bibliography
- Index