Managerial Dilemmas: Exploiting paradox for strategic leadership
In the midst of the most severe recession for 80 years there is little need to argue that organizations are beset by dilemmas and paradoxes. Confidence in prevailing business models and in the underlying assumptions underpinning business decisions over many decades has now been shaken. But it is not enough to rail against arrogance and greed.
Fourteen-year-old genius and mastermind Artemis Fowl realizes that he has a problem. His mother is nearing death and the only thing that can save her is the brain fluid from a species of lemur that he forced into extinction eight years earlier...
The paradox of knowability poses real difficulities to our understanding of truth. It does so by claiming that if we assume a truth is knowable, we can demonstrate that it is known. This demonstration threatens our understanding of truth in two quite different ways, only one of which has been recognized to this point in the literature on the paradox. Jonathan Kvanvig first unearths the ways in which the paradox is threatening, and then delineates an approach to the paradox that solves both of the problems raised by the paradox for our understanding of truth.
A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
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A Brief History of the Paradox Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
Because paradoxes show great minds at once at their most inspired and befuddled, a book like this makes an excellent introduction to philosophy in general.
By treating how different thinkers deal with a problem, Mr. Sorensen provides a sort of whistle-stop tour of Western thought. originally posted 2007-07-9; updated 2007-08-21
The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time
A walk through history's most mind-boggling puzzles
Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all
sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused. The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi takes die-hard
puzzle mavens on a tour of the world's most enduringly intriguing braintwisters, from Königsberg's
Bridges and the Hanoi Towers to Fibonacci's Rabbits, the Four Color Problem, and the Magic Square.
The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time
