Essays On Paradoxes
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Essays On Paradoxes
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Author : Terence Horgan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Essays On Paradoxes written by Terence Horgan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Mathematics categories.
This volume brings together many of Terence Horgan's essays on paradoxes: Newcomb's problem, the Monty Hall problem, the two-envelope paradox, the sorites paradox, and the Sleeping Beauty problem. Newcomb's problem arises because the ordinary concept of practical rationality constitutively includes normative standards that can sometimes come into direct conflict with one another. The Monty Hall problem reveals that sometimes the higher-order fact of one's having reliably received pertinent new first-order information constitutes stronger pertinent new information than does the new first-order information itself. The two-envelope paradox reveals that epistemic-probability contexts are weakly hyper-intensional; that therefore, non-zero epistemic probabilities sometimes accrue to epistemic possibilities that are not metaphysical possibilities; that therefore, the available acts in a given decision problem sometimes can simultaneously possess several different kinds of non-standard expected utility that rank the acts incompatibly. The sorites paradox reveals that a certain kind of logical incoherence is inherent to vagueness, and that therefore, ontological vagueness is impossible. The Sleeping Beauty problem reveals that some questions of probability are properly answered using a generalized variant of standard conditionalization that is applicable to essentially indexical self-locational possibilities, and deploys preliminary probabilities of such possibilities that are not prior probabilities. The volume also includes three new essays: one on Newcomb's problem, one on the Sleeping Beauty problem, and an essay on epistemic probability that articulates and motivates a number of novel claims about epistemic probability that Horgan has come to espouse in the course of his writings on paradoxes. A common theme unifying these essays is that philosophically interesting paradoxes typically resist either easy solutions or solutions that are formally/mathematically highly technical. Another unifying theme is that such paradoxes often have deep-sometimes disturbing-philosophical morals.
The Ways Of Paradox And Other Essays
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Author : Willard van Orman Quine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Ways Of Paradox And Other Essays written by Willard van Orman Quine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Logic categories.
Liars And Heaps
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Author : J. C. Beall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Liars And Heaps written by J. C. Beall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Paradox categories.
Logic is fundamental to thought and language. But which logical principles are correct? The paradoxes play a crucial role in answering that question. Written by leading figures in the field, this text discusses novel thoughts about the paradoxes.
Revenge Of The Liar
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Author : JC Beall
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-12-13
Revenge Of The Liar written by JC Beall and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-13 with Philosophy categories.
The Liar paradox raises foundational questions about logic, language, and truth (and semantic notions in general). A simple Liar sentence like 'This sentence is false' appears to be both true and false if it is either true or false. For if the sentence is true, then what it says is the case; but what it says is that it is false, hence it must be false. On the other hand, if the statement is false, then it is true, since it says (only) that it is false. How, then, should we classify Liar sentences? Are they true or false? A natural suggestion would be that Liars are neither true nor false; that is, they fall into a category beyond truth and falsity. This solution might resolve the initial problem, but it beckons the Liar's revenge. A sentence that says of itself only that it is false or beyond truth and falsity will, in effect, bring back the initial problem. The Liar's revenge is a witness to the hydra-like nature of Liars: in dealing with one Liar you often bring about another. JC Beall presents fourteen new essays and an extensive introduction, which examine the nature of the Liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it. Written by some of the world's leading experts in the field, the papers in this volume will be an important resource for those working in truth studies, philosophical logic, and philosophy of language, as well as those with an interest in formal semantics and metaphysics.
The Ways Of Paradox
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Author : Willard van Orman Quine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Ways Of Paradox written by Willard van Orman Quine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
Paradoxes Of Appearing
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Author : Michael Asgaard Andersen
language : en
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Paradoxes Of Appearing written by Michael Asgaard Andersen and has been published by Lars Muller Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Architecture categories.
The book contains a collection of essays by scholars and artists from a range of different fields including art, art history, architectural theory and philosophy. The essays are based on papers given at a symposium in Copenhagen in June 2008 and refer to the following considerations: When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture, vital questions regarding their appearance arise. Based on multiple discourses on these subjects, contemporary positions in art, architecture and philosophy draw up new challenges, especially with regard to the creative practices. Within and between these positions emerge potentials for modes of thinking and doing with a new sensitivity. Contributors include Michael Asgaard Andersen and Henrik Oxvig, Renaud Barbaras, Andrew Benjamin, Olafur Eliasson, Sanford Kwinter, David Leatherbarrow, Martin Seel, David Summers, and Sven-Olov Wallenstein.
Recent Essays On Truth And The Liar Paradox
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Author : Robert L. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1984
Recent Essays On Truth And The Liar Paradox written by Robert L. Martin and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection of recent essays includes important and influential work on the concept of truth and the semantic pardoxes. Using techniques of mathematical logic, these philosophers tackle this age-old problem to offer new insights and widely varying analyses.
New Essays On The Knowability Paradox
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Author : Joe Salerno
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-06-04
New Essays On The Knowability Paradox written by Joe Salerno and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-04 with Philosophy categories.
In 1945 Alonzo Church issued a pair of referee reports in which he anonymously conveyed to Frederic Fitch a surprising proof showing that wherever there is (empirical) ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth. Fitch published this and a generalization of the result in 1963. Ever since, philosophers have been attempting to understand the significance and address the counter-intuitiveness of this, the so-called paradox of knowability. This collection assembles Church's referee reports, Fitch's 1963 paper, and nineteen new papers on the knowability paradox. The contributors include logicians and philosophers from three continents, many of whom have already made important contributions to the discussion of the problem. The volume contains a general introduction to the paradox and the background literature, and is divided into seven sections that roughly mark the central points of debate. The sections include the history of the paradox, Michael Dummett's constructivism, issues of paraconsistency, developments of modal and temporal logics, Cartesian restricted theories of truth, modal and mathematical fictionalism, and reconsiderations about how, and whether, we ought to construe an anti-realist theory of truth.
The Paradox Of Cause And Other Essays
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Author : John William Miller
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1978
The Paradox Of Cause And Other Essays written by John William Miller and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Philosophy categories.
These essays, deceptively simple in phrasing, address current and historic issues.
Paradoxical Effects Of Social Behavior
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Author : A Diekmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Paradoxical Effects Of Social Behavior written by A Diekmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with categories.