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The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space (Hardback) - Common Published on: 2010Binding: Hardcover262 pages 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Great for Neophytes to the TopicBy David MilliernThis is a pretty fun book, but I have to be a little critical of its construction. Sometimes, I feel authors have a project in mind but never really sew it together the way it should, with an overarching, clearly thought-out, vision for what it is that they want to persuade the reader to think. In that way, it is a kind of inexhaustive treatment of a subject, and it lacks any particular new argumentative thread. For anyone who is already familiar with Plato's Parmenides, Barbour's "The End of Time," or anything like that, this book's stock will drop precipitously for that reader. I truly believe that it is more valuable (and interesting!) to look at Nick Huggett's "Space: From Zeno to Einstein."On the point of lacking an overarching theme, I am troubled, because the book is otherwise on the verge of being a really good book. I think the ideas are well explicated. Being a mathematician, some of Mazur's understandings of the history and philosophy are just a little bit off, but not so much that I can impugn him. On this point, I think he should have provided citations for a number of his assertions. I liked that the author was willing to go into some modest technical detail in explaining the issues and their solutions. Illustrations were also rather brilliantly placed next to text that would find efficacy in their representations. The book was well enough written and it was, in its piecemeal fashion, interesting. More or less, I recommend this as a very gentle and somewhat comprehensive (for the beginner) starting point into issue regarding the paradox of motion.Another disappointing feature of this book was its lack of treatment given to Zeno's paradox of the arrow. I think this paradox has generally been treated fairly incompetently within historical and philosophical literature, so I am not holding Mazur to a particularly high standard, in terms of the quality of treatment. However, I do personally believe that this paradox is the one that has not been resolved, and I see it, as a number of philosophers, as deserving quite a bit of treatment.Based on all of the above, I think this is a wonderful book for neophytes completely inexperienced in this topic, but not for the (even most moderately) knowledgeable individuals. It is intelligently written, so, if an intellectual were thinking of picking it up, I would not discourage it, either.See all 1 customer reviews...
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