Paradox Lost: Logical Solutions to Ten Puzzles of Philosophy

Paradox Lost covers ten of philosophy’s most fascinating paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads to absurd conclusions. The following paradoxes are included:

• The Liar Paradox, in which a sentence says of itself that it is false. Is the sentence true or false?

• The Sorites Paradox, in which we imagine removing grains of sand one at a time from a heap of sand. Is there a particular grain whose removal converts the heap to a non-heap?

• The Puzzle of the Self-Tortur...