A look at the staccato run

Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia

pp. 433-441

in: Synthese 148 (2), 2006.

Abstract

This paper considers a recent criticism of the physical possibility of supertasks which involves Achilles’s staccato run. It is held that the criticism fails and that the underlying fallacy can be linked with interesting developments in the modern literature on physical supertasks.