Paradox Lost: Logical Solutions to Ten Puzzles of Philosophy 1st Edition Michael Huemer

Paradox Lost: Logical Solutions to Ten Puzzles of Philosophy – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319904894,3319904892

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319904892
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319904894
• Author(s): Michael Huemer

Paradox Lost covers ten of philosophy’s most fascinating paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads to absurd conclusions. The following paradoxes are included:

• The Liar Paradox, in which a sentence says of itself that it is false. Is the sentence true or false?
  
• The Sorites Paradox, in which we imagine removing grains of sand one at a time from a heap of sand. Is there a particular grain whose removal converts the heap to a non-heap?
  
• The Puzzle of the Self-Torturer, in which a series of seemingly rational choices has us accepting a life of excruciating pain, in exchange for millions of dollars.
  
• Newcomb’s Problem, in which we seemingly maximize our expected profit by taking an unknown sum of money, rather than taking the same sum plus $1000.
  
• The Surprise Quiz Paradox, in which a professor finds that it is impossible to give a surprise quiz on any particular day of the week . . . butalso that if this is so, then a surprise quiz can be given on any day.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Semantic Paradoxes
2. The Liar
3. The Sorites
Part II. Paradoxes of Rational Choice
4. The Self-Torturer
5. Newcomb’s Problem
6. The Surprise Quiz
7. The Two Envelopes
Part III. Paradoxes of Probability
8. The Principle of Indifference
9. The Ravens
10. The Shooting Room
11. Self-Locating Beliefs
12. Concluding Remarks

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