A brief history of the paradox : philosophy and the labyrinths of the mind /

Covers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sorensen, Roy A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Paradox.
Paradoxes.
Paradoxe.
PHILOSOPHY > Logic.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anaximander and the riddle of origin
  • Pythagoras's search for the common denominator
  • Parmenides on what is not
  • Sisyphus's rock and Zeno's paradoxes
  • Socrates: the paradox of inquiry
  • The Megarian identity crisis
  • Eubulides and the politics of the liar
  • A footnote to "Plato"
  • Aristotle on fatalism
  • Chrysippus on people parts
  • Sextus Empiricus and the infinite regress of justification
  • Augustine's pragmatic paradoxes
  • Aquinas: can God have a biography?
  • Ockham and the Insolubilia
  • Buridan's sophisms
  • Pascal's improbable calculations
  • Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason
  • Hume's all-consuming ideas
  • The common sense of Thomas Reid
  • Kant and the antinomy of pure reason
  • Hegel's world of contradictions
  • Russell's set
  • Wittgenstein and the depth of a grammatical joke
  • Quine's question mark.

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