羅伊·索倫森,英國達特茅斯大學哲學教授。
Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: "Preparing hell for people who ask questions like that." A Brief History of the Paradox takes a close look at "questions like that" and the philosophers who have asked them, beginning with the folk riddles that inspired Anaximander to erect the first metaphysical system and ending with such thinkers as Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W.V. Quine. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into twenty-four chapters, each of which pairs a philosopher with a major paradox, allowing for extended consideration and putting a human face on the strategies that have been taken toward these puzzles. Readers get to follow the minds of Zeno, Socrates, Aquinas, Ockham, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, and many other major philosophers deep inside the tangles of paradox, looking for, and sometimes finding, a way out. Filled with illuminating anecdotes and vividly written, A Brief History of the Paradox will appeal to anyone who finds trying to answer unanswerable questions a paradoxically pleasant endeavor.
發表於2025-01-27
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內容還是很好的,就是讀的不太通順。也不是所有的哲學類書籍都要翻譯的那麼艱澀,艱澀並不等於有深意啊。
評分這基本上是我讀完的耗時最長的一本書,內容本來就夠繞的瞭,加上翻譯基本是按英文語序,很多句子要在腦子裏繞上幾遍纔能明白到底說什麼,當然,還有一些最後也沒繞明白,現在迴想起來腦子裏還是暈暈的。迄今為止我讀的哲學書不多,看這個主要是覺得好玩兒,也不太在乎到底...
評分因為中間彆的事情多,斷斷續續讀瞭這麼多天,總算把第一遍掃下來瞭。讀的時候還是挺費腦筋的,不停地迴顧早被扔到一邊的數學方麵的知識。看到不少集閤論和數理邏輯,後來還齣現瞭圖靈的大名,蠻有一種親切感,嗬嗬。本人是學計算機的。坦白地說,讀得太快,好多地方沒仔細看明...
評分1. 起源之謎 倘若你問一個胚胎細胞是如何分化成不同的組織、器官,為什麼一個細胞可以既可以變成骨骼,又可以變成肌肉、皮膚、血液,如果你再追問,人類是怎麼來的?猴子是怎麼來的?地球是怎麼來的?大爆炸是怎麼來的?奇點又是怎麼來的? 那麼你完全可以去問老子,而古希臘...
評分因為中間彆的事情多,斷斷續續讀瞭這麼多天,總算把第一遍掃下來瞭。讀的時候還是挺費腦筋的,不停地迴顧早被扔到一邊的數學方麵的知識。看到不少集閤論和數理邏輯,後來還齣現瞭圖靈的大名,蠻有一種親切感,嗬嗬。本人是學計算機的。坦白地說,讀得太快,好多地方沒仔細看明...
圖書標籤: 哲學 悖論 paradox PARADOX 悖論簡史 分析哲學 PHILOSOPHY Logic
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A Brief History of the Paradox 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載