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  • Paradoxes from A to Zby Michael Clark

    Routledge 2002; US$ 21.95

    'This sentence is false'. Is it? If a hotel with an infinite number of rooms is fully occupied, can it still accommodate a new guest? How can we have emotional responses to fiction, when we know that the objects of our emotions do not exist? more...

  • The Liarby Jon Barwise; John Etchemendy

    Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 24.95

    This monograph purports to provide a solution to semantical paradoxes like "the liar". The authors base this solution on J.L.Austin's idea of truth, which is fundamental to situation semantics, and compare two models of language, propositions and truth. more...

  • One Hundred Years of Russell's Paradoxby Godehard Link

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2004; US$ 168.95

    These 31 papers come from the June 2001 international conference held to commemorate the centenary of the discover of the famous "Russell's Paradox," and include contributions from Russell scholars, mathematical logicians, set theorists, and scholars in the philosophy of mathematics. Papers include an introduction by Godehard Link that credits Russ more...

  • Paradoxes from A to Zby Michael Clark

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 21.95

    This updated second edition discusses each paradox in non-technical terms, considering its significance and looking at likely solutions. Including a full glossary, its a refreshing alternative to traditional philosophical introductions. more...

  • A Brief History of the Paradoxby Roy Sorensen

    Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 15.00

    Covers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox. more...

  • Unity, Truth and the Liarby Shahid Rahman; Tero Tulenheimo; Emmanuel Genot

    Springer 2008; US$ 229.00

    The Liar Paradox challenges logiciansa (TM) and semanticistsa (TM) theories of truth and meaning. Modern accounts of paradoxes in formal semantics offer solutions through the hierarchy of object- language and meta-language. Yet this solution to the Liar presupposes that sentences have unique meaning. This assumption is non-controversial in formal languages, but an account of how a oehidden meaninga is made explicit is necessary to any complete analysis of natural language. Since the Liar Paradox presents itself as a sentence uniting contradictory meanings, appreciating how they can be united in a single sentence may provide new insights into this and other paradoxes. This volume includes a target paper, taking up the challenge to revive, within... more...

  • Revenge of the Liarby JC Beall

    Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 49.95

    Fourteen new essays by some of the world's leading experts, together with an extensive introduction, examine the nature of the Liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it. - ;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... more...

  • Paradoxesby R. M. Sainsbury

    Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 23.00

    This intriguing book is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking. more...

  • New Essays on the Knowability Paradoxby Joe Salerno

    OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 78.84

    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... more...

  • Five Metaphysical Paradoxesby Howard P Kainz

    Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 15.00

    The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy. Howard Kainz studied Greek, Latin, and Philosophy at the University of California and at Loyola University, Los Angeles (BA). After an MA in the History of Philosophy at St. Louis University, he finished his PhD at Duquesne University, specializing in 19th Century German Philosophy. He was an Assistant Professor at Duquesne, then subsequently at Marquette, where he became full professor in 1981, and professor emeritus in 2002. more...