naa a22 4500 510788998 CHVBK 20180411083312.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9416-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9416-7 Cheung Leo Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong aut On Two Versions of ‘the Surprise Examination Paradox' [Elektronische Daten] [Leo Cheung] In this paper, I consider a popular version of the clever student's reasoning in the surprise examination case, and demonstrate that a valid argument can be constructed. The valid argument is a reductio ad absurdum with the proposition that the student knows on the morning of the first day that the teacher's announcement is fulfilled as its reductio. But it would not give rise to any paradox. In the process, I criticize Saul Kripke's solution and Timothy Williamson's attack on a key step of the student's reasoning. I then consider the condemned prisoner case in W. V. Quine's paper ‘On a So-Called Paradox'. I argue that the prisoner's reasoning as conceived by Quine is more relevant and reasonable than the student's argument in the popular version of the surprise examination case. I also argue that Quine's criticism of the prisoner's reasoning is correct, and therefore that the condemned prisoner case, and the surprise examination case as well, would not generate any paradox. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 ‘The surprise examination paradox' nationallicence The condemned prisoner case nationallicence reductio ad absurdum nationallicence Quine nationallicence Kripke nationallicence Williamson nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/1(2013-03-01), 159-170 0048-3893 41:1<159 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9416-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9416-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cheung Leo Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/1(2013-03-01), 159-170 0048-3893 41:1<159 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer