Michael Clark

Paradoxes from A to Z (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Paradoxes from A to Z 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136218040
• Artikelnr.: 38450013

Autorenporträt

Michael Clark is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is editor of the leading journal Analysis, and has published widely in a variety of areas, including philosophical logic and the philosophy of law.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Third Edition 1. Achilles and the Tortoise 2. Allais'
Paradox 3. The Paradox of Analysis 4. The Arrow 5. The Barber Shop Paradox
6. Berry's Paradox 7. Bertrand's Box Paradox 8. Bertrand's (Chord) Paradox
9. The Paradox of Blackmail 10. The Bridge 11. Buridan's Ass 12. The Cable
Guy Paradox 13. Cantor's Paradox 14. The Paradox of the Charitable Trust
15. The Chicken and the Egg 16. Curry's Paradox 17. The Paradox of
Democracy 18. The Designated Student 19. The Paradox of Deterrence 20. The
Dr. Psycho Paradox 21. The Eclipse Paradox 22. The Paradox of Entailment
23. The Paradox of Fiction 24. The Paradox of Foreknowledge 25. The Paradox
of Future Generations 26. Galileo's Paradox 27. The Gentle Murder Paradox
28. The Paradox of the Gods 29. Grue (Goodman's 'New Riddle of Induction')
30. The Heap 31. Heraclitus' Paradox 32. Heterological 33. Hilbert's Hotel
34. The Indy Paradox 35. The Paradox of Inference 36. The Paradox of
Interesting Numbers 37. The Paradox of Jurisdiction 38. The Paradox of
Knowability 39. The Knower 40. The Lawyer 41. The Liar 42. The Lottery 43.
Lycan's Paradox 44. The Paradox of the Many 45. The Monty Hall Paradox 46.
Moore's Paradox 47. Moral Luck 48. The Paradox of the Muddy Children 49.
Murder 50. Newcomb's Problem 51. The Numbered Balls 52. The Paradox of
Omniscience 53. Paradox 54. The Parrondo Paradox 55. The Pasadena Paradox
56. Pascal's Wager 57. The Placebo Paradox 58. The Paradox of Plurality 59.
The Poison Hypothetical 60. The Prediction Paradox 61. The Preface 62. The
Paradox of Preference 63. Prisoner's Dilemma 64. The Prosecutor's Fallacy
65. The Paradox of the Question 66. Quinn's Paradox 67. The Racecourse 68.
The Rakehell 69. The Paradox of the Ravens 70. The Red Taxi Paradox 71.
Richard's Paradox 72. Russell's Paradox 73. The St Petersburg Paradox 74.
The Self-Amendment Paradox 75. Self-deception 76. Self-ful¿lling Belief 77.
The Ship of Theseus 78. Simpson's Paradox 79. The Sleeping Beauty 80. The
Paradox of Soundness 81. The Spaceship 82. The Toxin Paradox 83. The
Paradox of Tragedy 84. The Tristram Shandy 85. The Trojan Fly 86. The
Trolley Problem 87. The Two-Envelope Paradox 88. The Unexpected Examination
89. The Paradox of Validity 90. The Paradox of Voting 91. Wang's Paradox
92. The Xenophobic Paradox 93. Yablo's Paradox 94. Zeno's Paradoxes. Index