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Moore's Paradox : New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person, Hardback Book

Moore's Paradox : New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person Hardback

Edited by Mitchell S. (University of Virginia) Green, John N. (Singapore Management University) Williams

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G. E. Moore famously observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would be 'absurd'.

Moore calls it a 'paradox' that this absurdity persists despite the fact that what I say about myself might be true.

Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers and other students of language, logic, and cognition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein was fascinated by Moore's example, and the absurdity of Moore's saying was intensively discussed in the mid-20th century.

Yet the source of the absurdity has remained elusive, and its recalcitrance has led researchers in recent decades to address it with greater care.

In this definitive treatment of the problem of Moorean absurdity Green and Williams survey the history and relevance of the paradox and leading approaches to resolving it, and present new essays by leading thinkers in the area.

ContributorsJonathan Adler, Bradley Armour-Garb, Jay D.

Atlas, Thomas Baldwin, Claudio de Almeida, André Gallois, Robert Gordon, Mitchell Green, Alan Hájek, Roy Sorensen, John Williams

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