Cowie, Christopher (2022) 'What are Paradoxes?', Journal of the American Philosophical Association .
Abstract
According to a standard view, paradoxes are arguments with plausible premises that entail an implausible conclusion. This is false. In many paradoxes the premises are not plausible precisely because they entail an implausible conclusion. Obvious responses to this problem—including that the premises are individually plausible and that they are plausible setting aside the fact that they entail an implausible conclusion—are shown to be inadequate. A very different view of paradox is then introduced. This is a functionalist view according to which paradoxes are the kinds of things that puzzle people in characteristic ways. It is claimed that this view, too, fails and for the very same reason. The result is a new puzzle about the nature of paradoxes
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download PDF (Advance online version) (271Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2021.48 |
| Publisher statement: | Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Date accepted: | 30 October 2021 |
| Date deposited: | 13 May 2022 |
| Date of first online publication: | 11 April 2022 |
| Date first made open access: | 13 May 2022 |
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