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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} *{{Cite journal |first=D. J. |last=O'Connor |title=Pragmatic Paradoxes |journal=Mind |year=1948 |volume=57 |issue= 227|pages=358β359 |doi=10.1093/mind/lvii.227.358}} <small>The first appearance of the paradox in print. The author claims that certain contingent future tense statements cannot come true.</small> *{{Cite journal |first=Ken |last=Levy |title=The Solution to the Surprise Exam Paradox |journal=Southern Journal of Philosophy |year=2009 |volume=47 |issue= 2|pages=131β158 |ssrn=1435806 |doi=10.1111/j.2041-6962.2009.tb00088.x |url=http://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article%3D1027%26context%3Dfaculty_scholarship |access-date=2018-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320163651/http://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=faculty_scholarship |archive-date=2017-03-20 |url-status=dead |citeseerx=10.1.1.1027.1486 }} <small> The author argues that a surprise exam (or unexpected hanging) can indeed take place on the last day of the period and therefore that the very first premise that launches the paradox is, despite first appearances, simply false.</small> *{{Cite journal |first=M. |last=Scriven |title=Paradoxical Announcements |journal=Mind |year=1951 |volume=60 |issue= 239|pages=403β407 |doi=10.1093/mind/lx.239.403}} <small>The author critiques O'Connor and discovers the paradox as we know it today.</small> *{{Cite journal |first=R. |last=Shaw |title=The Unexpected Examination |journal=Mind |year=1958 |volume=67 |issue=267 |pages=382β384 |doi=10.1093/mind/lxvii.267.382}} <small>The author claims that the prisoner's premises are self-referring.</small> *{{Cite journal |first1=C. |last1=Wright |name-list-style=amp |first2=A. |last2=Sudbury |title=the Paradox of the Unexpected Examination |journal=Australasian Journal of Philosophy |year=1977 |volume=55 |pages=41β58 |doi=10.1080/00048407712341031}} <small>The first complete formalization of the paradox, and a proposed solution to it.</small> *{{Cite journal |author-link=Avishai Margalit |first1=A. |last1=Margalit |name-list-style=amp |first2=M. |last2=Bar-Hillel |s2cid=143848294 |title=Expecting the Unexpected |journal=Philosophia |year=1983 |volume=13 |issue= 3β4|pages=337β344 |doi=10.1007/BF02379182 }} <small>A history and bibliography of writings on the paradox up to 1983.</small> *{{Cite journal |first=C. S. |last=Chihara |title=Olin, Quine, and the Surprise Examination |journal=Philosophical Studies |year=1985 |volume=47 |issue= 2|pages=19β26 |doi=10.1007/bf00354146|s2cid=170830855 }} <small>The author claims that the prisoner assumes, falsely, that if he knows some proposition, then he also knows that he knows it.</small> *{{Cite journal |first=R. |last=Kirkham |title=On Paradoxes and a Surprise Exam |journal=Philosophia |year=1991 |volume=21 |issue= 1β2|pages=31β51 |doi=10.1007/bf02381968|s2cid=144611262 }} <small>The author defends and extends Wright and Sudbury's solution. He also updates the history and bibliography of Margalit and Bar-Hillel up to 1991.</small> *{{Cite journal |first=P. |last=Franceschi |title=Une analyse dichotomique du paradoxe de l'examen surprise |language=fr|journal=Philosophiques |year=2005 |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=399β421 |doi=10.7202/011875ar|url=https://philpapers.org/archive/FRAUAD-3.pdf|doi-access= }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120322194917/http://www.paulfranceschi.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6%3Aa-dichotomic-analysis-of-the-surprise-examination-paradox&catid=1%3Aanalytic-philosophy&Itemid=2 English translation]. *{{Cite book |author-link=Martin Gardner |first=M. |last=Gardner |chapter=The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging |title=The Unexpected Hanging and Other * Mathematical Diversions |year=1969 }} <small>Completely analyzes the paradox and introduces other situations with similar logic.</small> *{{Cite journal |first=W. V. O. |last=Quine |title=On a So-called Paradox |journal=Mind |year=1953 |volume=62 |issue= 245|pages=65β66 |doi=10.1093/mind/lxii.245.65}} *{{Cite journal |first=R. A. |last=Sorensen |title=Recalcitrant versions of the prediction paradox |journal=Australasian Journal of Philosophy |year=1982 |volume=69 |issue= 4|pages=355β362 |doi= 10.1080/00048408212340761}} {{refend}} *{{Cite journal |first=Claude |last=Kacser |s2cid=120607488 |title= On the unexpected hanging paradox |doi=10.1119/1.14658 |journal=[[American Journal of Physics]] |year=1986 |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=296β297 |bibcode=1986AmJPh..54..296K }} *{{Cite journal |first=Stuart C. |last=Shapiro |title=A Procedural Solution to the Unexpected Hanging and Sorites Paradoxes |journal=Mind |year=1998 |volume=107 |issue= 428|pages=751β761 |doi=10.1093/mind/107.428.751 |jstor=2659782|url=http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/98-01.ps.Z |citeseerx=10.1.1.33.3808 }}
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