Alexander R Pruss

Infinity, Causation, and Paradox

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alexander R. Pruss examines a large family of paradoxes to do with infinity - ranging from deterministic supertasks to infinite lotteries and decision theory. Having identified their common structure, Pruss considers at length how these paradoxes can be resolved by embracing causal finitism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 166mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780198810339
• ISBN-10: 0198810334
• Artikelnr.: 52822749

Autorenporträt

Alexander R. Pruss is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include The Principle of Sufficient Reason (Cambridge, 2006), Actuality, Possibility and Worlds (Continuum, 2011), One Body (Notre Dame, 2012), and Necessary Existence (with Joshua Rasmussen; Oxford, 2018). He has PhDs in mathematics (British Columbia) and philosophy (Pittsburgh), and his current research focuses on metaphysics, philosophy of religion, formal epistemology and philosophy of mathematics.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Infinity, paradox and mathematics
2: Infinite regresses
3: Supertasks and deterministic paradoxes
4: Paradoxical lotteries
5: Probability and decision theory
6: The Axiom of Choice Machine
7: Refinement, alternatives and extensions
8: Discrete time and space
9: A first cause
10: Conclusions