Paradoxes from A to Z
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Paradoxes from A to Z

Michael Clark

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Michael Clark

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Paradoxes from A to Z, Third 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 Prisoner's Dilemma, taking in subjects as diverse as knowledge, science, art and politics. Clark discusses each paradox in non-technical terms, considering its significance and looking at likely solutions.

This third edition is revised throughout, and adds nine new paradoxes that have important bearings in areas such as law, logic, ethics and probability.

Paradoxes from A to Z, Third edition is an ideal starting point for those interested not just in philosophical puzzles and conundrums, but anyone seeking to hone their thinking skills.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136218040
Edition
3
Topic
Filosofía
Subtopic
Historia y teoría filosóficas
Index
A. K. Austin, 246
Abbott, Derek and Greg Harmer, 165
abortion, 116
Achilles and the tortoise, 1–4, 12, 156, 199, 245, 246, 270
Alexander et al., 169
Allais, M., 6, 7, 8
Allais’ paradox, 5–8, 219
Amis, Kingsley, 201; That Uncertain Feeling, 201
analysis, paradox of, 9–10
Anand, P., 187
Aristotle, 28, 44, 92
Arrhenius et al., 73
arrow, the, 3, 11–12, 159, 270
‘Ask Marilyn’, 135
Aulus Gellius, 116
axiom of choice, 78
bald man, see heap, the Baldwin, Thomas, 10, 140
balls, numbered, 155–6
barber shop paradox, 13–17, 159
Beall, J. C., 158, 269
Benacerraf, Paul, 3, 216
Benardete, J., 82, 240
Bernouilli, Daniel, 219
Bernouilli, Nicolaus, 219
Berry’s paradox, 18–19, 210, 215
Bertrand, J., 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 218
Bertrand’s box, 20–1, 159
Bertrand’s (chord) paradox, 22–4, 162
Black, Robert, 156
blackmail, paradox of, 25–7
bleen, 83
Boolos, G. and R. Jeffrey, 47
Boolos, George, 216
Brennan, G. and L. Lomasky, 262
bridge, 28–9, 116
Broome, John, 154
Brouwer, L. E. J., 40
Burge, Tyler, 114
Buridan, Jean, 28, 29, 30, 31, 114, 119, 138, 180, 267
Buridan’s ass, 30–1
Burke, Michael B., 132
Byron, Michael, 43
Cable Guy paradox, 32–3
Caesar, Julius, 225
Campbell, Richmond and Lanning Sowden, 154, 191
Cantor, Georg, 34, 35, 36, 40, 75, 78, 100, 157, 209, 212, 215
Cantor’s paradox, 34–41, 157, 160, 215
caring, paradox of, 67
Carroll, Lewis, 13, 14, 16, 17, 95,...

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