Experiments

In the section Philosophy of OpenLearn I found a couple of interesting videos and articles. For a quick entry I can recommend the 60 second videos about thought experiments and paradoxes.

When it comes to Achilles and the Tortoise there are some proposed solutions to that paradox. But you might also wanna check Skeptiods episode about Zeno’s Paradoxes. There Brian Dunning explains the paradox and why it can’t work. Really. It can’t.

The probably best one is the one of Diogenes the Cynic: According to Simplicius he responded nothing at all when  he heard Zeno’s argument for the first time, but just stood up, walked a round and demonstrated that way, that the conclusion of Zeno therefore must have been wrong. Well, this is half of it. In order to fix a paradox you also have to prove the falsity of the argument wrong, not only the conclusion. But hey! As a starter ?