Roy A. Sorensen
Autore di A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
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Roy Sorensen is Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College.
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Of course, the result is that in writing a "history of the paradox" directed at general readers, Roy Sorensen has ended up simply putting a slightly new spin on the traditional Anaximander-to-Wittgenstein narrative of western philosophy. It's different enough in its approach that you won't be bored if you've already worked your way through one or two similar histories (I read Anthony Kenny's book a few years ago), but it doesn't cover very much really unfamiliar ground. Sorensen is quite brisk and lively, covering the ground in under 400 pages, and he sticks to the point without going off into the usual digressions into the private lives of the philosophers. (We do get the G H Hardy taxi anecdote, but there seems to be a strict rule that that has to be included in all popular philosophy and pure-maths texts...)… (altro)