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Cook provides a systematic and comprehensive study about the most important semantic puzzles such as the Liar, the Curry and - of course - the infinitary paradoxes such as Yablo's sequences. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

The Yablo Paradox is a fun read. Those familiar with this literature will find new things here that are worth the time. (A number of them, however, are more deeply discussed in Cook (2012) and other papers in that special issue, some of which Iave cited above ... Those not familiar with this literature will be well served by taking this book as an initial foray. David Ripley, Analysis Cook provides a systematic and comprehensive study about the most important semantic puzzles such as the Liar, the Curry and - of course - the infinitary paradoxes such as Yablo's sequences. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online The Yablo Paradox is an important contribution to the literature on paradoxes. Everyone who is interested in such issues should read it. J. Payne, History and Philosophy of Logic

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Roy T Cook is professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is also an associate fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen and a research fellow of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. He is the author of Key Concepts in Philosophy: Paradox (Polity, 2013) and The Dictionary of Philosophical Logic (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), editor of The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction (Springer, 2007), and co-editor of The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (with Aaron Meskin; Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). He has also published numerous articles on the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the history of analytic philosophy, the aesthetics of popular art, and other topics.

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