A Wittgensteinian way with paradoxes [[electronic resource] /] / Rupert Read
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| Autore: |
Read Rupert J. <1966->
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| Titolo: |
A Wittgensteinian way with paradoxes [[electronic resource] /] / Rupert Read
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 192 |
| Soggetto topico: | Paradoxes |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; A Note on Quotations; Introduction: The Paradoxes of (Philosophical) Delusion; I: Away With Philosophers' Paradoxes; Chapter One: Pre-empting Russell's Paradox: Wittgenstein and Frege Against Logicism; Chapter Two: 'Time Travel': The Very Idea; Chapter Three: A Paradox for Chomsky: On Our Being Through and Through 'Inside' Language; Chapter Four: Kripke's Rule-Following Paradox-and Kripke's Conjuring Trick; Chapter Five: The Unstatability of Kripkean Skepticisms |
| Chapter Six: Heaps of Trouble: 'Logically Alien Thought' and the Dissolution of 'Sorites' ParadoxesChapter Seven: The Dissolution of the 'Surprise Exam' Paradox-and its Implications for Rational Choice Theory; II: A Way With Lived Paradoxes; Chapter Eight: Swastikas and Cyborgs: The Significance of PI 420, for Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations as a 'War Book'; Chapter Nine: From Moore's Paradox to 'Wittgenstein's Paradox'?: On Lived Paradox in Cases of (Moral and) Mental Ill-Health | |
| Chapter Ten: Lived 'Reductio Ad Absurdum': A Paradoxical and Proper Method of Philosophy, and of LifeChapter Eleven: Leaving Things As It Is (sic.): Philosophy and Life 'After' Wittgenstein and Zen; Chapter Twelve: Conclusion: On Lived Paradoxes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A Wittgensteinian way with paradoxes tackles some of the classic philosophical paradoxes that have puzzled philosophers over the centuries and explores how they can be dissolved using the 'therapeutic' method of Wittgenstein, according to the 'resolute' reading of the latter's work. The book shows how, by contrast, we should give more serious consideration to real, 'lived paradoxes', some of which can be harmful psychically, m |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Wittgensteinian way with paradoxes |
| ISBN: | 0-7391-6897-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463243403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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