Paradoxes from A to Z

✍ Scribed by Michael Clark

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This essential guide to paradoxes takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus' Ship, Hempel's Raven, and the Prisoners' Dilemma, taking in subjects as diverse as knowledge, ethics, science, art and politics. Clark discusses each paradox in non-technical terms, considering its significance and looking at likely solutions. He also includes a full glossary.

✦ Table of Contents

Title ......Page 1
Copyright ......Page 3
Contents ......Page 4
Preface ......Page 7
Acknowledgements ......Page 9
Achilles and the Tortoise ......Page 10
The Paradox of Analysis ......Page 14
The Arrow ......Page 16
The Barber Shop Paradox ......Page 18
Berry's Paradox ......Page 23
Bertrand's Box Paradox ......Page 25
Bertrand's (Chord) Paradox ......Page 27
The Paradox of Blackmail ......Page 30
The Bridge ......Page 33
Buridan's Ass ......Page 35
Cantor's Paradox ......Page 37
Curry's Paradox ......Page 45
The Paradox of Democracy ......Page 47
The Designated Student ......Page 49
The Paradox of Deterrence ......Page 50
The Eclipse Paradox ......Page 53
The Paradox of Entailment ......Page 56
The Paradox of Fiction ......Page 60
The Paradox of Foreknowledge ......Page 63
Galileo's Paradox ......Page 66
The Gentle Murder Paradox ......Page 71
The Paradox of the Gods ......Page 73
Grue (Goodman's 'New Riddle of Induction') ......Page 75
The Heap ......Page 78
Heraclitus' Paradox ......Page 86
Heterological ......Page 89
Hilbert's Hotel ......Page 92
The Indy Paradox ......Page 93
The Paradox of Inference ......Page 95
The Paradox of Jurisdiction ......Page 98
The Paradox of Knowability ......Page 101
The Knower ......Page 103
The Lawyer ......Page 105
The Liar ......Page 108
The Lottery ......Page 116
Lycan's Paradox ......Page 120
The Paradox of the Many ......Page 121
The Monty Hall Paradox ......Page 123
Moore's Paradox ......Page 126
Moral Luck ......Page 131
Newcomb's Problem ......Page 134
The Paradox of Omniscience ......Page 139
Paradox ......Page 141
The Placebo Paradox ......Page 145
The Paradox of Plurality ......Page 147
The Prediction Paradox ......Page 151
The Preface ......Page 153
The Paradox of Preference ......Page 156
Prisoners' Dilemma ......Page 159
The Paradox of the Question ......Page 163
Quinn's Paradox ......Page 166
The Racecourse ......Page 168
The Rakehell ......Page 170
The Paradox of the Ravens ......Page 172
Richard's Paradox ......Page 175
Russell's Paradox ......Page 177
The St Petersburg Paradox ......Page 183
Self-deception ......Page 187
Self-fulfilling Belief ......Page 191
The Ship of Theseus ......Page 193
Simpson's Paradox ......Page 195
The Sleeping Beauty ......Page 199
The Paradox of Soundness ......Page 202
The Spaceship ......Page 203
The Toxin Paradox ......Page 204
The Paradox of Tragedy ......Page 206
The Tristram Shandy ......Page 208
The Trojan Fly ......Page 209
The Two-envelope Paradox ......Page 211
The Unexpected Examination ......Page 215
The Paradox of Validity ......Page 218
Wang's Paradox ......Page 220
The Xenophobic Paradox ......Page 221
Yablo's Paradox ......Page 224
Zeno's Paradoxes ......Page 227