Put your neurons through their paces with this lively and engaging introduction to paradoxes. From Buridan’s Ass and the Surprise Examination to The Liar and Sleeping Beauty, This Sentence is False introduces all the key philosophical paradoxes.
This fascinating guide to logic and reasoning is packed with puzzles and thought experiments to actively engage the reader in critical thinking. As well as paradoxes that occur in our everyday lives, topics also include God, ethics, political philosophy, space and time.
Ideal for anyone coming to philosophy for the first time, This Sentence is False will put your mind to the test, challenge what you think you know and lead you on a fascinating journey through logical reasoning.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Welcome to the rational irrational – how to win, how to starve, and how to pump money
2. Too clever by one half – or at least one eighth
3. Lather, rinse, repeat – ‘repeat’ did you say?
4. Infinity: no ends; no beginning – a flea, fly and bandit
5. Heaps and haze, colours and clocks – and 1,001 cats
6. Ravens, lotteries – and a gruesome tale or two
7. Morality and politics – blackmail, buck-passing and voting
8. Encounters with God – and his mysterious ways
9. Encounters with ourselves and our mysterious ways – life, luck and love
10. When to stop Appendices Further reading Notes, sources and references Paradoxes purveyed
Bibliography
General Index
