Paradoxes

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Łukowski, Piotr (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Σειρά: Trends in Logic ; 31
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Logic.; Philosophy, general.

The book is a monograph devoted to paradoxes of reasoning in the European tradition of philosophical logic. For each paradox, it analyses important attempts at its solution.The content is arranged according to the new classification of paradoxes presented by the author. The paradoxes discussed in th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Sophisms and paralogisms (paradoxes of: horses, Newcomb, Fitch)
• 2. Wrong intuition’s paradoxes (paradoxes of: common birthday, approximation, Stevenson’s bottle, Hempel, infinity)
• 3. Paradoxes coming from ambiguity (paradoxes of Protagoras, Elektra, horn-headed man, the club without a name, God’s omnipotence, stone)
• 4. Paradoxes of self-reference (Möbius ribbon (band), Klein’s bottle, liar paradox, Buridan, barber, Richard, Berry, Grelling and Nelson, unexpected examination, crocodile)
• 5. Ontological paradoxes
• 6. Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Subject index
• Name index.