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| 0618-2582-01 | Paradoxes and Their Philosophical Significance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Paradoxes aren’t just an intellectual curiosity. We will illustrate the claim that every serious paradox points to a deep philosophical problem and its solutions by studying paradoxes in different areas: the philosophy of space and time (Zeno’s paradoxes), the theory of rational choice (Newcomb’s problem), logic and the philosophy of language (the Sorites paradox), the theory of confirmation (the new riddle of induction and the paradox of the ravens) and the metaphysics and rationality of emotions (the paradox of “recalcitrant” emotions).