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Paradoxes / by Roy T. Cook. [electronic resource]

By: Cook, Roy T, 1972- [author].
Material type: TextTextSeries: Key concepts in philosophy series.Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2013Description: e-book contains 221 p.ISBN: 9780745676692.Subject(s): Paradox | Logic -- Philosophy | Fallacies | ContradictionsDDC classification: 165 Online resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vidyasagar/detail.action?docID=1166807&query=9780745676692 Click here
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Table of Contents Cover pp i-viii; 8 pages Download PDF Read Online Contents pp ix-ix; 1 page Download PDF Read Online Acknowledgments pp x-x; 1 page Download PDF Read Online Introduction pp 1-8; 8 pages Download PDF Read Online 1 The Care and Feeding of your New Paradoxes pp 9-29; 21 pages Download PDF Read Online 2 The Truth about Truth pp 30-61; 32 pages Download PDF Read Online 3 The Title of this Chapter Will Have its Revenge pp 62-90; 29 pages Download PDF Read Online 4 Some Collections are Bigger and Badder than Others pp 91-127; 37 pages Download PDF Read Online 5 Bald, Not Bald, and Kinda Bald pp 128-155; 28 pages Download PDF Read Online 6 What We Know about What We Know pp 156-185; 30 pages Download PDF Read Online Conclusion: Many Paradoxes, One Solution? pp 186-196; 11 pages Download PDF Read Online References pp 197-202; 6 pages Download PDF Read Online Index pp 203-211; 9 pages Download PDF Read Online
Summary: 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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Table of Contents
Cover
pp i-viii; 8 pages
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Contents
pp ix-ix; 1 page
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Acknowledgments
pp x-x; 1 page
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Introduction
pp 1-8; 8 pages
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1 The Care and Feeding of your New Paradoxes
pp 9-29; 21 pages
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2 The Truth about Truth
pp 30-61; 32 pages
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3 The Title of this Chapter Will Have its Revenge
pp 62-90; 29 pages
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4 Some Collections are Bigger and Badder than Others
pp 91-127; 37 pages
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5 Bald, Not Bald, and Kinda Bald
pp 128-155; 28 pages
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6 What We Know about What We Know
pp 156-185; 30 pages
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Conclusion: Many Paradoxes, One Solution?
pp 186-196; 11 pages
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References
pp 197-202; 6 pages
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Index
pp 203-211; 9 pages
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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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