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PHIL 307

Paradox and Infinity

Paradoxes aren't just puzzles here — they're the stress tests philosophers use to find where our theories of time, truth, infinity, and rational choice quietly break. You'll work through canonical cases (Zeno, the Liar, Sleeping Beauty, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Cantor's hierarchies) via weekly readings and reports, translating informal arguments into formal ones and back. It sits late in the philosophy curriculum because the payoff is methodological: once you've watched intuitive premises generate contradictions, you read metaphysics, logic, and decision theory with much sharper hands.

Credit3ECTS5FacultyFaculty of Humanities and LettersBölümPhilosophyMüfredatY3 Güz

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Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 1
1. Introduction. 2. Logic and Argumentation.
Hafta 2
The unreality of time McTaggart: The unreality of time Zimmerman: The privileged present
Hafta 3
Time travel Lewis: The paradoxes of time travel Smith: Bananas enough for time travel?
Hafta 4
Backward causation Dummett: Bringing about the past Ismael: Closed causal loops and the bilking argument
Hafta 5
Fate Taylor: Fatalism Van Inwagen: Fatalism
Hafta 6
Zeno’s paradoxes, Kant’s antinomies 1 and 2 Black: Achilles and the Tortoise Van Cleve: The ideality of matter
Hafta 7
The Heap Williamson: What makes it a heap? Varzi: Vagueness, logic, and ontology
Hafta 8
midterm exam
Hafta 9
The Liar Read: Symmetry and paradox Sorensen: Yablo’s Paradox and kindred infinite liars
Hafta 10
Doomsday and simulation Leslie: Is the end of the world nigh? Bostrom: Are you living in a computer simulation?
Hafta 11
Sleeping Beauty Elga: Self-locating belief and the Sleeping Beauty problem Arntzenius: Some problems for conditionalization and reflection
Hafta 12
Prisoner’s Dilemma Black: The “Prisoner's Dilemma" and the limits of rationality Aranyosi: Frames and games: intensionality and equilibrium selection
Hafta 13
Hilbert’s hotel Craig: The Finitude of the Past and the Existence of God Morriston: Craig on the actual infinite
Hafta 14
Cantor’s paradise Gödel: What is Cantor's Continuum Problem? Parker: Philosophical method and Galileo’s paradox of infinity

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