Paradoxes
Recommended by Tom Stoneham, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #75 in Logical Reasoning
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... more
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Tom Stoneham I love this book. Whole university courses are taught around this book. It’s an absolute classic. (Source)
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