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2025-03-02
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悖論對應著某些數學傢和數學的本體,因此悖論被認為是荒謬的,但是他們確實存在著,還有不少呢!!悖論不僅是具有過分的難處,還有難以解決的好處,因此我們將之稱為悖論的,不僅不是“悖論”,反而是成果豐富的。
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...
評分影響我閱讀心情的是翻譯,不能說很差吧,應該是很爛! 語句很歐化,讀著讀著都去糾結翻譯者帶給我的拗口語言瞭。 書本來應該很好,很通俗的讀物,竟然被翻譯成如此晦澀難懂的東西!
評分當我寫瞭一篇論文,來論證我寫的不是論文,那這還是一篇論文嗎? 這其實是個“說謊者悖論”的變化模式。最早的悖論可以追溯到公元前6世紀古希臘人埃匹門尼德,他說瞭一句著名的話:“所有的剋裏特島人都說謊。”由於他本人也是一名剋裏特島人,從這句話真可推齣它假...
圖書標籤: 哲學 悖論 paradox PARADOX 悖論簡史 分析哲學 PHILOSOPHY Logic
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評分柏拉圖竟然傳閑話說芝諾和蘇格拉底有一腿??? 寫法優秀有趣。
評分以悖論作為哲學史的棱鏡。渴盼作者有更多數理方麵的探究。
評分以悖論作為哲學史的棱鏡。渴盼作者有更多數理方麵的探究。
評分柏拉圖竟然傳閑話說芝諾和蘇格拉底有一腿??? 寫法優秀有趣。
A Brief History of the Paradox 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載