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Preface Acknowledgements 1. Welcome to the rational irrational - how to win, how to starve, and how to pump money 2. Too clever by one half - or at least one eighth 3. Lather, rinse, repeat - 'repeat' did you say? 4. Infinity: no ends; no beginning - a flea, fly and bandit 5. Heaps and haze, colours and clocks - and 1,001 cats 6. Ravens, lotteries - and a gruesome tale or two 7. Morality and politics - blackmail, buck-passing and voting 8. Encounters with God - and his mysterious ways 9. Encounters with ourselves and our mysterious ways - life, luck and love 10. When to stop Appendices Further reading Notes, sources and references Paradoxes purveyed Bibliography General Index

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A lively and accessible introduction to philosophical paradoxes - ideal for anyone coming to this fascinating subject for the first time.

About the Author

Peter Cave is a popular philosophy writer and speaker. He read philosophy at University College London and King's College Cambridge, has held lectureships in Britain and given guest presentations at various other European universities; some time ago he held a lectureship at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. For many years he has been a lecturer at the Open University and New York University, London.

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Member of Population Matters, former member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Chair of Humanist Philosophers – and is a Patron of Humanists UK. Peter has scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes – from a series on the Paradox Fair to more serious ones on John Stuart Mill. He often takes part in public debates on religion, ethics and socio-political matters.

His philosophy books include This Sentence Is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes (2009), and three Beginner's Guides: to Humanism, Philosophy and Ethics. More recent works are The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems (2015) and The Myths We Live By: A Contrarian’s Guide to Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Fictions (2019).

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"Peter Cave takes us on an edifying tour through the world of paradoxes, and there is much to be learned, as well as much enjoyment to be had, in the process." - Adrian W. Moore, University of Oxford, UK

"‘This sentence is false' is a sentence printed on the cover of this book. A sentence is not a name. So what is the name of the book? This book (whatever its name) is full of intriguing philosophical puzzles ... Paradoxes may seem trivial at first glance, but further thought reveals them to be challenges to some of our most fundamental beliefs and preconceptions. Peter Cave entertainingly escorts the reader through a great variety of these fascinating puzzles, shining light that is fresh and bright."- Laurence Goldstein, University of Kent, UK

"This is a truly wonderful book. The topic is tough, but Peter Cave brings it to life. He manages to give new insights on old topics, which is itself remarkable, and he also brings in plenty of less familiar topics ... All in all, it is a joy to see such cleverness and clarity of thought coexisting with such an easy (and light and amusing) writing style." - Professor Imre Leader, Cambridge University, UK

Absorbing and provocative - hard to put down, and light as a feather to pick up again.
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