Essays on Paradoxes

This volume brings together many of Terence Horgan''s essays on paradoxes: Newcomb''s problem, the Monty Hall problem, the two-envelope paradox, the sorites paradox, and the Sleeping Beauty problem. Newcomb''s problem arises because the ordinary concept of practical rationality constitutively includes normative standards that can sometimes come into direct conflict with one another. The Monty Hall...