‘What the Tortoise Said to Achilles’
Lewis Carroll’s Paradox of Inference
Edited by Amirouche Moktefi & Francine F Abeles
Published 2016, 136 pages, paperbound
ISBN: 978 0 904117 39 4
ISSN: 1462 6519
(The Carrollian, Issue 28)
Lewis Carroll’s 1895 paper, 'What the Tortoise Said to Achilles' is widely regarded as a classic text in the philosophy of logic. This special issue of The Carrollian publishes five newly commissioned articles by experts in the field. The original paper is reproduced, together with contemporary correspondence relating to the paper and an extensive bibliography.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
by Francine F. Abeles & Amirouche Moktefi - What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
by Lewis Carroll - Correspondence with G.F. Stout, the Editor of Mind
by Lewis Carroll, edited by Francine F. Abeles & Amirouche Moktefi - The Making of ‘What the Tortoise Said to Achilles’: Lewis Carroll’s
Logical Investigations Toward a Workable Theory of Hypotheticals
by Amirouche Moktefi & Francine F. Abeles - Lessons from Lewis Carroll’s Paradox of Inference
by Mathieu Marion - What Did Lewis Carroll Think the Tortoise Said to Achilles?
by George Englebretsen - The Philosophical Significance of Carroll’s Regress
by Pascal Engel - Required by Logic
by John Woods - What the Tortoise Said to Achilles: A Selective Bibliography
by Clare Imholtz & Amirouche Moktefi
All correspondence relating to this publication should be addressed to the Executive Editor:
editor@thecarrollian.org.uk
Website: thecarrollian.org.uk