Paradoxes

3rd edition

By: R. M. Sainsbury

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Paperback | 29 June 2009 | Edition Number 3

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A paradox can be defined as an unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises.

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.

The discussion uses a minimum of technicality but also grapples with complicated and difficult considerations, and is accompanied by helpful questions designed to engage the reader with the arguments. The result is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking.

About the Author

R. M. Sainsbury is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin. He also teaches in the Department of Philosophy, King's College, London. He was editor of the journal Mind for a decade from 1990 and his many publications include Reference without Referents (2005, 2007) and Logical Forms, 2nd edition (2000).

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'An engaging and accessible guide through some of the deepest conceptual labyrinths we know. Sainsbury encourages the reader to think with him, always asking questions and pointing out roads not taken. This is the first place I send students who have become puzzled by the liar paradox or the paradox of the heap.' John McFarlane, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

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Foreword to third edition	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Suggested reading	p. 3
Zeno's paradoxes: space, time, and motion	p. 4
Introduction	p. 4
Space	p. 5
The Racetrack	p. 11
The Racetrack again	p. 15
Achilles and the Tortoise	p. 19
The Arrow	p. 19
Suggested reading	p. 21
Moral paradoxes	p. 22
Crime Reduction	p. 22
Mixed Blessings	p. 27
Not Being Sorry	p. 31
Moral dilemmas	p. 34
Suggested reading	p. 39
Vagueness: the paradox of the heap	p. 40
Sorites paradoxes: preliminaries	p. 40
Sorites paradoxes: some options	p. 46
Accepting the conclusion: Unger's view	p. 48
Rejecting the premises: the epistemic theory	p. 49
Rejecting the premises: supervaluations	p. 51
Rejecting the reasoning: degrees of truth	p. 56
Vague objects?	p. 63
Suggested reading	p. 66
Acting rationally	p. 69
Newcomb's paradox	p. 69
The Prisoner's Dilemma	p. 82
Suggested reading	p. 88
Believing rationally	p. 90
Paradoxes of confirmation	p. 90
Background	p. 90
The paradox of the Ravens	p. 95
"Grue"	p. 99
The Unexpected Examination	p. 107
Revising the Unexpected Examination	p. 110
The Knower	p. 115
Suggested reading	p. 120
Classes and truth	p. 123
Russell's paradox	p. 123
The Liar: semantic defects	p. 127
Grounding and truth	p. 129
The Strengthened Liar	p. 132
Levels	p. 133
Self-reference	p. 137
Indexicality	p. 138
Indexical circularity	p. 139
Comparison: how similar are Russell's paradox and the Liar?	p. 142
Suggested reading	p. 145
Are any contradictions acceptable?	p. 150 è
Contradictions entail everything	p. 151
A sentence which is both true and false could have no intelligible content	p. 152
Three dualities	p. 153
Negation	p. 155
Falsehood and untruth	p. 157
Suggested reading	p. 158
Some more paradoxes	p. 160
Remarks on some text questions and appended paradoxes	p. 168
Bibliography	p. 172
Index	p. 179
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