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The Ways Of Paradox And Other Essays
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Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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 1976 with Philosophy categories.
A respected Harvard logician and philosopher gathers together twenty-nine writings dealing with the foundations of mathematics, Rudolf Carnap, lin-guistics, truth, analyticity, modal logic, propositional attitudes, and ontology.
The Ways Of Paradox
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Author : Willard van Orman Quine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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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.
The Paradox Of Cause And Other Essays
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Author : John W. Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981-01-01
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Quine S Epistemic Norms In Practice
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Author : Michael Shepanski
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-06-29
Quine S Epistemic Norms In Practice written by Michael Shepanski and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-29 with Philosophy categories.
In this illuminating guide to the criteria of rational theorizing, Michael Shepanski identifies, defends and applies W. V. Quine's epistemic norms the norms that best explain Quine's decisions to accept some theories and not others. Parts I and II set out the doctrines of this epistemology, demonstrating their potential for philosophical application. Part III is a case study in which Shepanski develops a theory of the propositional attitudes by the method of formalizing inferences to behaviour. He presents critiques of popular alternative views, including foundationalism, the centrality of knowledge and Quine's own epistemological naturalism. By reassessing Quine's normative epistemology, Shepanski advances our understanding of Quine's philosophy whilst providing a guide for our own theorizing.
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.
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.
Essays In Paradox
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Author : John Hutton Balfour
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-17
Essays In Paradox written by John Hutton Balfour and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from Essays in Paradox There is, I think, an old epigram which says - "That I spent, that I have; That I saved, that I lost; That I gave, that I saved." And there is a rough truth under its uncouthness. But in a higher sense than the mere monetary one pointed out in the half-truth of the epigram, it is very true that, that I lost, that I have. No one who is familiar with sorrow is ignorant that sorrows have a way of turning to joys, and that the only loved ones that our hearts keep are those that we have lost for ever. The lover on fire with his mistress' charms knows no future; indeed, it is the secret of passion that it makes the instant everything, and has a fine contempt for what that ghost, to-morrow, may do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Ontological Relativity And Other Essays
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Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1969
Ontological Relativity And Other Essays written by Willard Van Orman Quine and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Philosophy categories.
Intended to clarify the meaning of the philosophical doctrines propounded by W. V. Quine in Word and Objects, the essays included herein are intimately related and concern themselves with three philosophical preoccupations: the nature of meaning, the meaning of existence and the nature of natural knowledge.
Philosophy And The Human Paradox
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Author : Alan Montefiore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-09
Philosophy And The Human Paradox written by Alan Montefiore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-09 with Philosophy categories.
This book collects essays by Alan Montefiore on the role philosophy plays in the formation of the self, and how philosophical questions regarding the nature of reason, truth, and identity inform ethics and politics. It offers a comprehensive overview of Montefiore’s influential, non-dogmatic philosophical voice. Throughout his 70-year career, Montefiore sought to bridge the analytic/continental divide and develop a new way of thinking about philosophy. He defines philosophy as the search for a higher-order understanding of whatever the situation or activity in which one may be involved or engaged, an understanding which may be achieved and expressed by and in a variety of different forms of philosophical persuasion, and which may serve to shed new light on particular problems. The book’s essays, half of which are previously unpublished, are divided into two thematic sections. The first focuses on the nature of philosophy, while the second addresses the relationship between philosophy and moral and political responsibilities. Philosophy and the Human Paradox will be of interest to philosophers and students who work on ethics, Kantian and post-Kantian continental philosophy, and political philosophy.