Author: R. M. Sainsbury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: paradoxes
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2009-03-23
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0521720796
ISBN-13: 9780521720793
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 techn
Author: R. M. Sainsbury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: paradoxes
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 1995-05-26
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521483476
ISBN-13: 9780521483476
A paradox can be defined as an unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises. Unlike party puzzles or brain teasers, many paradoxes are serious in that they raise serious philosophical problems, and are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. To grapple with them is not merely to engage in an intellectual game, but to come to grips with issues of real import. The second, revised edition of this intriguing book expands and updates the text to take account of new work on the subject. It provides a valuable and acce
Author: T.S. Champlin
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: paradoxes, reflexive
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1988-04-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415000831
ISBN-13: 9780415000833
Author: Michael Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: paradoxes
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2002-05-10
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0415228085
ISBN-13: 9780415228084
This essential guide to paradoxes takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus’ Ship, Hempel’s Raven, and the Prisoners’ Dilemma, taking in subjects as diverse as knowledge, ethics, science, art and politics. Clark discusses each paradox in non-technical terms, considering its significance and looking at likely solutions. He also includes a full glossary.
Author: Michael Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: paradoxes
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-05-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0415420830
ISBN-13: 9780415420839
This updated second edition is the essential guide to paradoxes and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus’ Ship and the Prisoners’ Dilemma, taking in subjects as diverse as knowledge, ethics, science, art and politics. Clark discusses each paradox in non-technical terms, considering its significance and looking at likely solutions. Including a full glossary, Paradoxes from A to Z is a refreshing altern
Author: Saul Smilansky
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: paradoxes, moral
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-06-22
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 140516087X
ISBN-13: 9781405160872
Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cutting edge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete case for the centrality of paradoxes within morality. Explores what these paradoxes can teach us about morality and the human condition Considers a broad range of subjects, from familiar topics to rarely posed questions, among them "Fortunate Misfortune", "Beneficial Retirement" and "Preferring Not To Have Been Born" Asks whether the existence of moral paradox is a good or a bad thing Presents analytic moral philosophy in a provocative, engaging and entertaining way; po
Author: W. Hampso
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: science, nature, paradoxes
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0766135330
ISBN-13: 9780766135338
Things which appear to contradict general experience or scientific principles, with popular explanations of the how and why. Contents: Mechanical Paradoxes: carriages and other means of transport; spinning movement; rolling and flying movement; fluid forces; fallacies with the lever; Paradoxes of Physical State: curiosities of freezing and melting; curiosities of steam and vaporization; curiosities of heat conduction; curiosities of vapor jets; curiosities of volatile liquids; perpetual motion fallacies; magnetism; Chemical Paradoxes: curiosities of combination; disintegration; Physiological P
