I Think, Therefore I Laugh The Flip Side of Philosophy

Name: I Think, Therefore I Laugh The Flip Side of Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780231119153

ISBN-10: 0231119151

ISBN-13: 9780231119153

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: John Allen Paulos

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The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling books but also from his media appearances, including The David Letterman Show and National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" and "Science Friday," as well as articles in Newsweek, Nature, Discover, Business Week, the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. Paulos originally wrote this charming little book on analytic logic, its mathematics, and its puzzles in 1985. And as in his later books, he uses jokes, stories, parables, and anecdotes to elucidate difficult concepts, in this…

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List price: $22.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 0.53" wide x 0.70" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition



Two Unlikely Pairs of Men


Introduction


Wittgenstein and Carroll


Groucho Meets Russell



Logic


Either-Or


You Bet Your Life


Sillygisms


The Titl of This Section Contains Three Erors


Russell's Dr. Goldberg and Dr. Rubin


Language and Metalanguage: Do You Get It?


Meaning, Reference, and Dora Black's First Husband


Analytic vs. Synthetic, Boole vs. Boyle, and Mathematics vs. Cookery


Miscellany



Science


Induction, Causality, and Hume's Eggs


The Tortoise Came First?


Of Birds and Strange Colors


Truths, Half-Truths, and Statistics


Duhem, Poincare, and the Poconos-Catskill Diet


Reductionism, Fallibilism, and Opportunism


Randomness and the Berry Task


Determinism and Smart Computers


Bell's Inequality and Weirdness


On Assumptions



People


Context, Complexity, and Artificial Intelligence


Why Did He Just Now Touch His Head?


Arrow, Prisoners, and Compromise


Afterword


Bibliography


Index