Contents

List of Figures

Preface

ONE

Anaximander and the Riddle of Origin

TWO

Pythagoras’s Search for the Common Denominator

THREE

Parmenides on What Is Not

FOUR

Sisyphus’s Rock and Zeno’s Paradoxes

FIVE

Socrates: The Paradox of Inquiry

SIX

The Megarian Identity Crisis

SEVEN

Eubulides and the Politics of the Liar

EIGHT

A Footnote to “Plato”

NINE

Aristotle on Fatalism

TEN

Chrysippus on People Parts

ELEVEN

Sextus Empiricus and the Infinite Regress of Justification

TWELVE

Augustine’s Pragmatic Paradoxes

THIRTEEN

Aquinas: Can God Have a Biography?

FOURTEEN

Ockham and the Insolubilia

FIFTEEN

Buridan’s Sophisms

SIXTEEN

Pascal’s Improbable Calculations

SEVENTEEN

Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason

EIGHTEEN

Hume’s All-Consuming Ideas

NINETEEN

The Common Sense of Thomas Reid

TWENTY

Kant and the Antinomy of Pure Reason

TWENTY-ONE

Hegel’s World of Contradictions

TWENTY-TWO

Russell’s Set

TWENTY-THREE

Wittgenstein and the Depth of a Grammatical Joke

TWENTY-FOUR

Quine’s Question Mark

Bibliography

Index