Paradoxes /

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Author / Creator:Sainsbury, R. M. (Richard Mark)
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2009.
Description:vii, 182 p.
Language:English
Subject:
Paradox.
Paradoxes.
Paradox.
Paradoxes.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8208827
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ISBN:9780521896320 (cased)
0521896320 (cased)
9780521720793 (pbk.)
0521720796 (pbk.)
Notes:Previous ed.: 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-178) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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

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