Paradoxes
A problem determining the truth value of the statement, "I am lying."
Liar's Paradox
Causa sui
The cause of oneself
Author of The Republic
Plato
Philos3000 course name
Gateway Seminar
“For the rejection of all my opinions, therefore, it will be enough if I discover in each one of them some reason for doubting.”
Rene Descartes
A problem arising from the effect of time travel on causality, the idea that a cause must precede its effect. The paradox suggests that a cause is eliminated by its own effect, thus preventing its own cause and essentially becoming reverse causation.
What is the Grandfather Paradox?
Prima facie
At first sight (first face)
Author of Le Monde (The World)
Rene Descartes
Department Chair (for now...)
Who is Justin D'Arms?
Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
Any moving object must reach halfway on a course before it reaches the end; and because there are an infinite number of halfway points, a moving object never reaches the end in a finite time.
What is Zeno's Paradox?
De re
About the thing
Author of Utopia
Who is Thomas More?
Philosophy Club namesake
Joseph Alexander Leighton
“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.”
Harry G Frankfurt
A set containing all sets that are not members of themselves. The paradox shows that such a set cannot exist because it leads to self-referential contradiction: if it contains itself, it's also not in itself, and vice versa.
What is Russell's Paradox?
Esse est percipi
To be is to be perceived
Author of The View From Nowhere
Thomas Nagel
Philos3260 course name
Movements in 20th Century Philosophy
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Plato
No course of action could be determined by a rule, because any course of action can be made out to accord with the rule
What is the Rule Following Paradox?
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend
Author of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume
Current professors with their own Wikipedia page
Neil Tennant, Stewart Shapiro, Glenn Hartz
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
Bertrand Russell