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The Labours of Zeno - a supertask indeed?
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dc.contributor.author | Sattler, Barbara Michaela | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-11T11:30:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-11T11:30:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-04 | |
dc.identifier | 257934696 | |
dc.identifier | 3e8fcf52-6017-47a5-9b6f-3f62920d3253 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sattler , B M 2019 , ' The Labours of Zeno - a supertask indeed? ' , Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI , vol. 1 , no. 1 , pp. 1-17 . https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2019.0002 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2516-1164 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/17500 | |
dc.description.abstract | It is usually supposed that, with his dichotomy paradox, Zeno gave birth to the modern so-called supertask debate – the debate of whether carrying out an infinite sequence of actions or operations in a finite interval of time is physically or even logically possible. I argue that in fact this is not a problem raised by Zeno's dichotomy paradox, and that an account of the dichotomy paradox as a supertask (often implicitly offered also by scholars of ancient philosophy) seriously misconstrues the problems Zeno raises therein. However, comparing Zeno's paradox with a paradigmatic supertask can nevertheless be instructive, since it forces us to make explicit the pre-conditions on which the supertask debate rests and to examine whether these conditions do indeed obtain in the case of a continuous run. I will suggest in the end that the requirements for supertasks and for continuous finite runs are genuinely different. | |
dc.format.extent | 17 | |
dc.format.extent | 531570 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI | en |
dc.subject | Supertasks | en |
dc.subject | Zeno | en |
dc.subject | Dichotmoy paradox | en |
dc.subject | At-at theory of motion | en |
dc.subject | B Philosophy (General) | en |
dc.subject | DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | B1 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | DE | en |
dc.title | The Labours of Zeno - a supertask indeed? | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2019.0002 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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