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The Knowability Paradox - Bok av Jonathan L. (University of Missouri) Kvanvig - Inbunden

The paradox of knowability poses real difficulties to our understanding of truth. This title unearths the ways in which the paradox is threatening, and then delineates an approach to the paradox that solves both of the problems raised by the paradox for our understanding of truth. It is suitable for logicians and epistemologists.

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New Essays on the Knowability Paradox - Bok - Inbunden

The knowability paradox suggests that wherever there is empirical ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth. This volume presents the original papers in which this notorious problem was first set out, nineteen new papers seeking to resolve it, and a helpful introduction. It will be the definitive resource for study of the paradox.

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The Yablo Paradox - An Essay on Circularity - Bok av Roy T (University of Minnesota Cook - Inbunden

Roy T Cook examines the Yablo paradox-a paradoxical, infinite sequence of sentences, each of which entails the falsity of all others that follow it. He focuses on questions of characterization, circularity, and generalizability, and pays special attention to the idea that it provides us with a semantic paradox that involves no circularity.

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The Possibility of Inquiry - Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus - Bok av Gail (Cornell University) Fine - Inbunden

Gail Fine presents the first full-length study of Meno's Paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's Meno. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key questions concerning the nature of knowledge and inquiry.

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Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture - Bok - Inbunden

This collection of essays examines the presence of what might be seen as an unclassical love of paradox and the marvellous in the literature and art of Augustan Rome, and shows that it is an important strain in the poetry of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as in prose works of history and rhetoric, and in the Augustan visual arts.

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The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages - Bok av Astrid (Postdoctoral Researcher De Wit - Inbunden

This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'.

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Moore's Paradox - New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person - Bok - Inbunden

G. E. Moore observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would be 'absurd'. Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers. In the definitive treatment of the famous paradox, Green and Williams explain its history and relevance and present new essays by leading thinkers in the area.

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What is Identity? - Bok av C. J. F. (Professor of Philosophy Williams - Inbunden

The concept of identity has been seen to lead to a paradox - we cannot truly and usefully say that a thing is the same either as itself or as something else. This book is a full examination of this paradox in philosophical logic, and of its implications for the philosophy of mathematics.

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The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox - Bok - Inbunden

Organizations are rife with paradoxes, evident in persistent and interwoven tensions for example between stability and change, flexibility and control, diversity and inclusion, long term and short term, social and financial, learning and performing. This Handbook investigates paradoxes across various organizational phenomena and levels of analysis.

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Liars and Heaps - New Essays on Paradox - Bok - Inbunden

Logic is fundamental to thought and language. But which logical principles are correct? The so-called Liar and Heap paradoxes challenge our basic ideas about logic; they teach us that the correct logical principles are not as obvious as common sense would have it. The essays in this volume, discuss novel thoughts about the paradoxes.

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Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity - Bok - Häftad

Distinguished experts from a range of disciplines with a common interest in late antiquity probe the apparent paradox of pagan monotheism, and reach a better understanding of the historical roots of Christianity.

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Sovereignty - A Contribution to the Theory of Public and International Law - Bok av Hermann Heller - Inbunden

In this 1927 work, Hermann Heller addresses the paradox of sovereignty, with a discussion spanning the disciplines of history, constitutional and political theory, and international law. The book includes a substantial introductory essay by David Dyzenhaus.

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Articulating a Thought - Bok av Eli (Assistant Professor of Philosophy Alshanetsky - Inbunden

Eli Alshanetsky considers how we make our thoughts clear to ourselves in the process of putting them into words and examines the paradox of those difficult cases where we do not already know what we are struggling to articulate.

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Saving Truth From Paradox - Bok av Hartry (New York University) Field - Inbunden

This is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Goedel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches.

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Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy - Bok av David (Emeritus Pears - Inbunden

Presents a study of five intertwined themes at the heart of Wittgenstein's thought, written by one of his most eminent interpreters. This book offers investigations and explications of some of the most influential, and yet puzzling writings of twentieth-century philosophy. It focuses on the idea of language as a picture of the world.

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Time Travel - Probability and Impossibility - Bok av Nikk (Reader in Philosophy Effingham - Inbunden

Time travel is metaphysically possible. Nikk Effingham contends that arguments for the impossibility of time travel are not sound. Focusing mainly on the Grandfather Paradox, Effingham explores the ramifications of taking this view, discusses issues in probability and decision theory, and considers the potential dangers of travelling in time.

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In The Name of Liberalism - Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain - Bok av Desmond (Professor of Politics and Fellow King - Inbunde

Why have contemporary British and North American governments adopted illiberal social policies ? Examining examples of such policies, the author argues that government accommodation of illiberal policies are a paradox of a liberal democratic framework and that there is a need to question further the internal workings of entrenched democracies.

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Truth, Probability and Paradox - Studies in Philosophical Logic - Bok av J. L. Mackie - Inbunden

Classic work by one of the most brilliant figures in post-war analytic philosophy.

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Truth and Paradox - Solving the Riddles - Bok av Tim (Department of Philosophy Maudlin - Inbunden

Consider the sentence 'This sentence is not true'. It seems that the sentence can be neither true nor not true, on pain of contradiction. Certain notorious paradoxes like this have bedevilled philosophical theories of truth. The author presents an account of logic and semantics which deals with these paradoxes.

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Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics - Bok - Inbunden

Conceptual engineering is a newly flourishing branch of philosophy which investigates problems with our concepts and considers how they might be ameliorated: 'truth', for instance, is susceptible to paradox, and it's not clear what 'race' stands for. This is the first collective exploration of possibilities and problems of conceptual engineering.

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Personalizing the State - An Anthropology of Law, Politics, and Welfare in Austerity Britain - Bok av Insa Lee (Assistant Professor Koch - Inbunden

Starting with penal populism, this book examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience their daily engagements with the state.

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Regions, Globalization, and the Knowledge-Based Economy - Bok - Häftad

How can we explain the paradox of growing transnationalization of the production of goods and services and the tendency for certain kinds of activities to be concentrated or clustered in one place? In today's changing economic environment how do firms make decisions about location and the development and deployment of their capabilities?

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Sense, Reference, and Philosophy - Bok av Jerrold J. (Formerly Professor of Philosophy Katz - Inbunden

Aims to develop the consequences for philosophy of adopting non-Fregean intensionalism, showing that long-standing problems in the philosophy of language, and indeed other areas, that appeared intractable can be solved. This work also examines some of those problems including the problem of the names, natural kind terms, and the Liar Paradox.

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Objectivity and the Parochial - Bok av Charles (King's College London) Travis - Inbunden

Charles Travis investigates a central problem in philosophy, one of the most puzzling. Thought must be about a world independent of us. But our capacities for thought shape thought's objects. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, cannot be independent of us. Objectivity and the Parochial suggests how we might resolve this paradox.

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Justice in the EU - The Emergence of Transnational Solidarity - Bok av Floris (Assistant Professor de Witte - Inbunden

The claims of justice are universal, yet we need the structures of the nation state to implement its policies. This book argues that the EU is able to overcome this paradox. It suggests that EU law, and in particular the right to free movement, creates connections and solidarity between citizens to broaden our understanding of justice.

SEK 1956.00

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