"The Liar Paradox and the Sorites Paradox were discovered by theAncient Greek thinker Eubulides. Two and a half thousand yearslater, we have a much deeper understanding of these paradoxes, their neighbours, and their importance, but there is still noconsensus on how they should be solved. Roy Cook's bookexplains current thinking on these matters in a clear, knowledgeable, and easy-going way. He has fashioned an excellentintroduction to this intriguing area of thought.„
Graham Priest, University of Melbourne
“Paradoxes can be the springboard of profound discovery. Thisbook presents paradoxes that matter, and explains why and how theymatter. And the book does it all in a user-friendly style that'senjoyable to read. And what's more: the book is reliable, writtenby one of the leading researchers on the topic. This book ishenceforth on my list of required readings for anyone looking tostudy the philosophy of logic or the interplay of paradoxes, logic, and philosophy generally. It's a great accomplishment by one oftoday's exciting philosophers."
JC Beall, University of Connecticut
Paradoxes
von Roy T. CookParadoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth, knowledge, and belief.
In this volume Roy T Cook provides a sophisticated, yet accessible and entertaining, introduction to the study of paradoxes, one that includes a detailed examination of a wide variety of paradoxes. The book is organized around four important types of paradox: the semantic paradoxes involving truth, the set-theoretic paradoxes involving arbitrary collections of objects, the Soritical paradoxes involving vague concepts, and the epistemic paradoxes involving knowledge and belief. In each of these cases, Cook frames the discussion in terms of four different approaches one might take towards solving such paradoxes. Each chapter concludes with a number of exercises that illustrate the philosophical arguments and logical concepts involved in the paradoxes.
Paradoxes is the ideal introduction to the topic and will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in a wide variety of disciplines who wish to understand the important role that paradoxes have played, and continue to play, in contemporary philosophy.
In this volume Roy T Cook provides a sophisticated, yet accessible and entertaining, introduction to the study of paradoxes, one that includes a detailed examination of a wide variety of paradoxes. The book is organized around four important types of paradox: the semantic paradoxes involving truth, the set-theoretic paradoxes involving arbitrary collections of objects, the Soritical paradoxes involving vague concepts, and the epistemic paradoxes involving knowledge and belief. In each of these cases, Cook frames the discussion in terms of four different approaches one might take towards solving such paradoxes. Each chapter concludes with a number of exercises that illustrate the philosophical arguments and logical concepts involved in the paradoxes.
Paradoxes is the ideal introduction to the topic and will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in a wide variety of disciplines who wish to understand the important role that paradoxes have played, and continue to play, in contemporary philosophy.
