Paradoxes from A to Z

Michael Clark

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781136218040
• Edición: 3
• Categoría: Filosofía
• Categoría: Historia y teoría filosóficas

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,...