Paradoxes [Hardcover]

This book,?provides a critical approach to all major logical paradoxes: from ancient to contemporary ones. There are four key aims of the book: 1. Providing systematic and historical survey of different approaches  solutions of the most prominent paradoxes discussed in the logical and philosophical literature. 2. Introducing original solutions of major paradoxes like: Liar paradox, Protagoras paradox, an unexpected examination paradox, stone paradox, crocodile, Newcomb paradox. 3. Explaining the far-reaching significance of paradoxes of vagueness and change for philosophy and ontology. 4. Proposing a novel, well justified and, as it seems, natural classification of paradoxes.

Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Sophisms and paralogisms (paradoxes of: horses, Newcomb, Fitch).- 2. Wrong intuitions paradoxes (paradoxes of: common birthday, approximation, Stevensons bottle, Hempel, infinity).- 3. Paradoxes coming from ambiguity (paradoxes of Protagoras, Elektra, horn-headed man, the club without a name, Gods omnipotence, stone) .- 4. Paradoxes of self-reference (M?bius ribbon (band), Kleins bottle, liar paradox, Buridan, barber, Richard, Berry, Grelling and Nelson, unexpected examination, crocodile).- 5. Ontological paradoxes.- 6. Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Subject index.- Name index.

From the reviews:

Piotr Aukowskis Paradoxes is an abridged, revised and translated version of a book written in Polish & . As a source of paradoxes and arguments related to them, the book is highly valuable. & Aukowski often develops his analyses carefully. In his book he not only gathers the paradoxes & but also presents a rather unified and interesting view on them. It is definitely a good read. (Rafal Urbaniak, Studia Logica, Vol. 101, 2013)

Piotr Lukowski is the Head of the Department of Cognitive Science at the Institute of Psychology, University of Lodz. He was visiting scholar in the Imperial College of London (1993), at lƒ!