{"product_id":"paradoxes-hardback-9780745649436","title":"Paradoxes (Hardback) 9780745649436","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eParadoxes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoy T. Cook (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745649436, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 February 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGraham Priest, University of Melbourne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJC Beall, University of Connecticut\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eParadoxes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadoxes\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Care and Feeding of your New Paradoxes 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Truth about Truth 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Title of this Chapter Will Have its Revenge 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Some Collections are Bigger and Badder than Others 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Bald, Not Bald, and Kinda Bald 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 What We Know about What We Know 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Many Paradoxes, One Solution? 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 203\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407320346904,"sku":"9780745649436","price":42.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745649436.jpg?v=1784161508","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/paradoxes-hardback-9780745649436","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}