Paradoxes from A to Z

Michael Clark

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136218040
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Logic in Philosophy

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.

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,...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword to the Third Edition
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Achilles and the Tortoise
• Allais’ Paradox
• The Paradox of Analysis
• The Arrow
• The Barber Shop Paradox
• Berry’s Paradox
• Bertrand’s Box Paradox
• Bertrand’s (Chord) Paradox
• The Paradox of Blackmail
• The Bridge
• Buridan’s Ass
• The Cable Guy Paradox
• Cantor’s Paradox
• The Paradox of the Charitable Trust
• The Chicken and the Egg
• Curry’s Paradox
• The Paradox of Democracy
• The Designated Student
• The Paradox of Deterrence
• The Dr Psycho Paradox
• The Eclipse Paradox
• The Paradox of Entailment
• The Paradox of Fiction
• The Paradox of Foreknowledge
• The Paradox of Future Generations
• Galileo’s Paradox
• The Gentle Murder Paradox
• The Paradox of the Gods
• Grue (Goodman’s ‘New Riddle of Induction’)
• The Heap
• Heraclitus’ Paradox
• Heterological
• Hilbert’s Hotel
• The Indy Paradox
• The Paradox of Inference
• The Paradox of Interesting Numbers
• The Paradox of Jurisdiction
• The Paradox of Knowability
• The Knower
• The Lawyer
• The Liar
• The Lottery
• Lycan’s Paradox
• The Paradox of the Many
• The Monty Hall Paradox
• Moore’s Paradox
• Moral Luck
• The Paradox of the Muddy Children
• Murder
• Newcomb’s Problem
• The Numbered Balls
• The Paradox of Omniscience
• Paradox
• The Parrondo Paradox
• The Pasedena Paradox
• Pascal’s Wager
• The Placebo Paradox
• The Paradox of Plurality
• The Poison Hypothetical
• The Prediction Paradox
• The Preface
• The Paradox of Preference
• Prisoner’s Dilemma
• The Prosecutor’s Fallacy
• The Paradox of the Question
• Quinn’s Paradox
• The Racecourse
• The Rakehell
• The Paradox of the Ravens
• The Red Taxi Paradox
• Richard’s Paradox
• Russell’s Paradox
• The St Petersburg Paradox
• The Self-Amendment Paradox
• Self-deception
• Self-fulfilling Belief
• The Ship of Theseus
• Simpson’s Paradox
• The Sleeping Beauty
• The Paradox of Soundness
• The Spaceship
• The Toxin Paradox
• The Paradox of Tragedy
• The Tristram Shandy
• The Trojan Fly
• The Trolley Problem
• The Two-envelope Paradox
• The Unexpected Examination
• The Paradox of Validity
• The Paradox of Voting
• Wang’s Paradox
• The Xenophobic Paradox
• Yablo’s Paradox
• Zeno’s Paradoxes
• Index