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I Think, Therefore I Laugh,9780231119153

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780231119153
ISBN10: 0231119151
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr
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Summary

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 case, some of the fundamental problems in modern philosophy.

Author Biography

John Allen Paulos is professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition ix
Two Unlikely Pairs of Men
1(12)
Introduction
2(2)
Wittgenstein and Carroll
4(4)
Groucho Meets Russell
8(5)
Logic
13(50)
Either-Or
14(6)
You Bet Your Life
20(3)
Sillygisms
23(7)
The Titl of This Section Contains Three Erors
30(5)
Russell's Dr. Goldberg and Dr. Rubin
35(5)
Language and Metalanguage: Do You Get It?
40(8)
Meaning, Reference, and Dora Black's First Husband
48(4)
Analytic vs. Synthetic, Boole vs. Boyle, and Mathematics vs. Cookery
52(6)
Miscellany
58(5)
Science
63(68)
Induction, Causality, and Hume's Eggs
64(7)
The Tortoise Came First
71(5)
Of Birds and Strange Colors
76(7)
Truths, Half-Truths, and Statistics
83(6)
Duhem, Poincare, and the Poconos-Catskill Diet
89(6)
Reductionism, Fallibilism, and Opportunism
95(7)
Randomness and the Berry Task
102(8)
Determinism and Smart Computers
110(4)
Bell's Inequality and Weirdness
114(10)
On Assumptions
124(7)
People
131(30)
Context, Complexity, and Artificial Intelligence
132(7)
Why Did He Just Now Touch His Head
139(11)
Arrow, Prisoners, and Compromise
150(11)
Afterword 161(6)
Bibliography 167(6)
Index 173

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