Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via
apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory
conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central
concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth, knowledge, and
belief. In this volume Roy T Cook provides a sophisticated, yet
accessible and entertaining, introduction to the study of paradoxes,
one that includes a detailed examination of a wide variety of
paradoxes. The book is organized around four important types of
paradox: the semantic paradoxes involving truth, the set-theoretic
paradoxes involving arbitrary collections of objects, the Soritical
paradoxes involving vague concepts, and the epistemic paradoxes
involving knowledge and belief. In each of these cases, Cook frames
the discussion in terms of four different approaches one might take
towards solving such paradoxes. Each chapter concludes with a number
of exercises that illustrate the philosophical arguments and logical
concepts involved in the paradoxes. Paradoxes is the ideal
introduction to the topic and will be a valuable resource for scholars
and students in a wide variety of disciplines who wish to understand
the important role that paradoxes have played, and continue to play,
in contemporary philosophy.
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ISBN
9780745665511
Publisert
2018
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1. utgave
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Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade (Wiley K&L)
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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