Paradoxes

• Main Author: Łukowski, Piotr (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Trends in Logic ; 31
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.