Paradoxes are many things... Artificial intelligence views them as viruses of the brain, strange replicators that unexpectedly exploit design possibilities. For the child, they are intellectual cartwheels, an everyday delight. For mathematicians and logicians, they reveal skeletons in the closet of reason. For philosophers and dramatists, they capture the contradictions of experience. The historian of ideas sees that they come in successive waves, surging through Classical Greece, the Renaissance and the twentieth century. Professor Leiber's user-friendly guide to paradoxes provides an up-to-date survey of an ancient and perennial source of puzzlement.
About the Interpretations series: The intellectual outlook of an age is defined by the interpretations it can offer, not only of its own thinking, but of the thought of the past. This series focuses on today's interpretations of important topics in the history of ideas. Though the authors express a personal view, they illuminate the topic within the context of current thought, and explain it concisely in terms accessible to non-specialists.

Paradoxes (Interpretations)

Politics & Social Sciences

Leiber, Justin

Philosophy

Bloomsbury Academic

Kinch the Noose, Prince of the House of Eigin, must brave assassins, outlaws, and an advancing army to find a hidden dessert tower which holds the secret key to peace

The Sword and the Tower (The Saga of the House of Eigin, Book 2)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Tor Books

In a time when the quest for alien life forms has been stopped by prejudice against anything not completely and exclusively human, four "unnatural" beings--including Earth's last ape and a thinking computer--must help each other survive

Beyond Humanity (Beyond, Book 2)

Science Fiction

Uncertain whether he is a prisoner or guest, and forgetful of the accident from which he is now recovering, Ishmael Cadmus slowly ascertains his role in an alien space environment as that of spokesman for humanity

Beyond Gravity (Beyond, No. 3)

Literature & Fiction

United States

"This is a dialogue about the notion of a person, of an entity that thinks and feels and acts, that counts and is accountable. Equivalently, it's about the intentional idiom--the well-knit fabric of terms that we use to characterize persons. Human beings are usually persons (a brain-dead human might be considered a human but not a person). However, there may be persons, in various senses, that are not human beings. Much recent discussion has focused on hypothetical computer-robots and on actual nonhuman great apes. The discussion here is naturalistic, which is to say that count and accountability are, at least initially, presumed to be naturally well-knit with the possession of a cognitive and affective life." --Justin Leiber, from the Introduction

Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?: A Dialogue

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.