A brief history of the paradox : philosophy and the labyrinths of the mind /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Anaximander and the riddle of origin
- Pythagoras's search for the common denominator
- Parmenides on what is not
- Sisyphus's rock and Zeno's paradoxes
- Socrates: the paradox of inquiry
- The Megarian identity crisis
- Eubulides and the politics of the liar
- A footnote to "Plato"
- Aristotle on fatalism
- Chrysippus on people parts
- Sextus Empiricus and the infinite regress of justification
- Augustine's pragmatic paradoxes
- Aquinas: can God have a biography?
- Ockham and the Insolubilia
- Buridan's sophisms
- Pascal's improbable calculations
- Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason
- Hume's all-consuming ideas
- The common sense of Thomas Reid
- Kant and the antinomy of pure reason
- Hegel's world of contradictions
- Russell's set
- Wittgenstein and the depth of a grammatical joke
- Quine's question mark.