Roy Sorensen: 5 books
Seeing Dark Things
The Philosophy of Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see things...
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities
A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles, and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Will you answer this question in the same way that you will answer my next question? Done? Good! Will you buy this book?. Inside you will discover that your only truthful answer to this second question is affirmative. Logic has made some men rich. Inside this book you will learn of John Eck (who debated...
A Brief History of the Paradox
Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
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...
Wer falsch liegt, hat immer recht
Logikrätsel und philosophische Knobeleien
Language: German
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Was war zuerst da, die Henne oder das Ei? Und ist das Glas nun halb voll oder halb leer? Philosophieprofessor Roy Sorensen präsentiert kurzweilig und amüsant ein Sammelsurium an Gedankenverdrehern, Seltsamkeiten und Dilemmata, die unser logisches Denken herausfordern und uns in die Welt von Platos...
Pseudo-Problems
How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
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