Philosophy 80E: Paradoxes and Dilemmas

Compiled by David Chalmers  

This is a web page for my course Philosophy 80E: Paradoxes and Dilemmas. It contains links to a number of papers and other resources related to paradoxes on the web. This page is still under construction and may be developed as time goes on.

Miscellaneous

• Zeno's Coffeehouse (Ron Barnette)
• Contradictionary Web Page

Logic/Language Paradoxes

• Logic Puzzles
• Unexpected Hanging Paradox
• The Berry Paradox (Gregory Chaitin)
• The Paradox of the Question (Ned Markosian)

Sorites Paradox & Vagueness

• Dilemmas of Ambiguity and Vagueness (Leon Felkins)
• Understanding Vagueness (Leon Felkins)
• A Fuzzy Fairly Happy Face (Patrick Grim)

Grue/Raven Paradoxes

• Hempel's Ravens (Franz Kiekeben)

Teletransporters, etc

• Online papers on consciousness (see especially the self)

Time Travel

• Time Travel (Frank Kiekeben)

Prisoner's Dilemmas, etc

• Paradoxes and Dilemmas (Leon Felkins)
• Social Dilemmas (Leon Felkins) (plus examples and games)
• The Voter's Paradox (Leon Felkins) (see also here and here)
• Prisoner's Dilemma (Leon Felkins)
• Prisoner's Dilemma (Ethical Spectacle)
• Prisoner's Dilemma (Francis Heylighen)
• Potential Solutions to the Prisoner's Dilemma (Bjorn Brembs)
• Interactive Prisoner's Dilemma
• The Tragedy of the Commons (Garrett Hardin)

Newcomb's Problem

• Newcomb's Paradox (William Poundstone)
• Newcomb's Paradox (Franz Kiekeben)

• David Chalmers' home page