A nice touch in this textbook is the cheat sheet for common formulas.
Foreword to third edition; Introduction; Suggested reading; 1. ; Suggested reading; 4. Acting rationally; 4.1 Newcomb's paradox; 4.2 The Prisoner's Dilemma; Suggested reading; 5. ; Suggested reading; 7.
Foreword to third edition; Introduction; Suggested reading; 1. ; Suggested reading; 4. Acting rationally; 4.1 Newcomb's paradox; 4.2 The Prisoner's Dilemma; Suggested reading; 5. ; Suggested reading; 7.
This book explores a wide range of paradoxes that have intrigued thinkers from ancient times to the modern era. It considers logical, semantic, and epistemic paradoxes and how they challenge our understanding of truth, knowledge, and meaning. .
This textbook is a bit heavy but worth it for the amount of content inside.
Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. The expanded and revised third edition of this intriguing book considers a range of knotty paradoxes including Zeno's paradoxical claim that the runner can never overtake the tortoise, a new chapter on paradoxes about morals, paradoxes about belief, and hardest of all, paradoxes about truth.
Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. The expanded and revised third edition of this intriguing book considers a range of knotty paradoxes including Zeno's paradoxical claim that the runner can never overtake the tortoise, a new chapter on paradoxes about morals, paradoxes about belief, and hardest of all, paradoxes about truth.
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Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. The expanded and revised third edition of this intriguing book considers a range of knotty paradoxes including Zeno's paradoxical claim that the runner can never overtake the tortoise, a new chapter on paradoxes about morals, paradoxes about belief, and hardest of all, paradoxes about truth.
ISBN-13: 9780521720793, 978-0521720793. Paradoxes Author(s): R. M. Sainsbury. Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances.
