Apart from presenting intriguing puzzles, paradoxes often offer direct routes to deep insights into logic, mathematics, philosophy, and science. This course shall explore paradoxes both for the fun of it and for the more serious purpose of discovering the foundational lessons they teach us.

Course materials such as handouts will be made available as they will be used in class.

• Syllabus (mandatory reading)

The following texts will be available from e-reserves by the beginning of the term:

• Paul Davies, "How to Build a Time Machine", Scientific American, September 2002, pp. 50-55.
• William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason, Anchor Press: New York, 1988, "Building a Thomson Lamp", pp. 146-149.
• William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason, Anchor Press: New York, 1988, "The Paradox of Tristram Shandy", pp. 157-159.
• Raymond M Smullyan, Satan, Cantor, And Infinity, Knopf, 1992, Chs 18-19.

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