Paradoxes

Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)

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Polity Press
22 February 2013

Philosophy: logic

Series: Key Concepts in Philosophy

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.

By: Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780745649436
ISBN 10: 0745649432
Series: Key Concepts in Philosophy
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 22 February 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 1 The Care and Feeding of your New Paradoxes 9 2 The Truth about Truth 30 3 The Title of this Chapter Will Have its Revenge 62 4 Some Collections are Bigger and Badder than Others 91 5 Bald, Not Bald, and Kinda Bald 128 6 What We Know about What We Know 156 Conclusion: Many Paradoxes, One Solution? 186 References 197 Index 203

Roy T. Cook is associate professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minnesota.

Reviews for Paradoxes

The Liar Paradox and the Sorites Paradox were discovered by the Ancient Greek thinker Eubulides. Two and a half thousand years later, we have a much deeper understanding of these paradoxes, their neighbours, and their importance, but there is still no consensus on how they should be solved. Roy Cook?s book explains current thinking on these matters in a clear, knowledgeable, and easy-going way. He has fashioned an excellent introduction to this intriguing area of thought. Graham Priest, University of Melbourne Paradoxes can be the springboard of profound discovery. This book presents paradoxes that matter, and explains why and how they matter. And the book does it all in a user-friendly style that's enjoyable to read. And what's more: the book is reliable, written by one of the leading researchers on the topic. This book is henceforth on my list of required readings for anyone looking to study the philosophy of logic or the interplay of paradoxes, logic, and philosophy generally. It's a great accomplishment by one of today's exciting philosophers. JC Beall, University of Connecticut