What is included with this book?
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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