Contents
Preface
Logic. Paradoxes about truth-tellers, liars, crocodiles, and barbers.
The Liar Paradox
Buttons and Graffiti
A Sentence and Its Opposite
The Crazy Computer
Infinite Regress
The Plato-Socrates Paradox
Alice and the Red King
Crocodile and Baby
The Don Quixote Paradox
The Barber Paradox
Astrologer, Robot, and Catalog
Dull Versus Interesting
Semantics and Set Theory
Metalanguages
Theory of Types
The Swami's Prediction
The Unexpected Tiger
Newcomb's Paradox
Number. Paradoxes about integers, fractions, and an infinite ladder
The Six-Chair Mystery
The Elusive Profit
Population Implosion
The Ubiquitous Number 9
The Bewildered Bus Driver
The Missing Dollar
Magic Matrix
The Curious Will
The Amazing Code
Hotel Infinity
The Ladder of Alephs
Geometry. Paradoxes about plane, solid, and impossible shapes
Getting Around a Girl
The Great Moon Mystery
Mirror Magic
Cubes and Ladies
Randi's Remarkable Rugs
The Vanishing Leprechaun
The Great Bank Swindle
The Amazing Inside-Out Doughnut
The Bewildering Braid
The Inescapable Point
Impossible Objects
A Pathological Curve
The Unknown Universe
Antimatter
Probability. Paradoxes about chance, wagers, and belie
The Gambler's Fallacy
Four Kittens
Three-Card Swindle
The Elevator Paradox
The Bewildered Girlfriends
Three-Shell Game
Chuck-A-Luck
Puzzling Parrots
The Wallet Game
The Principle of Indifference
Pascal's Wager
Statistics. Paradoxes about gismos, clumps, ravens, and grue
The Deceptive "Average"
Mother of the Year
Jumping to Conclusions
The Small-World Paradox
What's Your Sign?
Patterns in Pi
Jason and the Sun
Crazy Clumps
An Amazing Card Trick
The Voting Paradox
Miss Lonelyhearts
Hempel's Ravens
Goodman's Grue
Time. Paradoxes about motion, supertasks, time and reversed time
Carroll's Crazy Clocks
The Perplexing Wheel
The Frustrated Skier
Zeno's Paradoxes
The Rubber Rope
Supertasks
Mary, Tom, and Fido
Can Time Go Backward?
Time Machines
The Tachyon Telephone
Parallel Worlds
Time Dilation
Fate, Chance, and Free Will
References and Suggested Readings
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