Uncommon sense : the strangest ideas from the smartest philosophers / Andrew Pessin.
2012
190 P475u 2012
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Title
Uncommon sense : the strangest ideas from the smartest philosophers / Andrew Pessin.
Author
ISBN
9781442216082 (cloth : alk. paper)
1442216085 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442216105 (electronic)
1442216107 (electronic)
1442216085 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442216105 (electronic)
1442216107 (electronic)
Imprint
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012.
Language
English
Description
ix, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
40021149846
Call Number
190 P475u 2012
System Control No.
(OCoLC)777327385
(OCoLC)777327385
(OCoLC)777327385
Summary
"In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums--by asserting some very strange things. But the great philosophers don't merely make unusual claims, they offer powerful arguments for those claims that you can't easily dismiss. And these arguments suggest that the world is much stranger than you could have imagined: You neither will, nor won't, do certain things in the future, like wear your blue shirt tomorrow ; But your blue shirt isn't really blue, because colors don't exist in physical objects; they're only in your mind ; Time is an illusion ; Your thoughts are not inside your head ; Everything you believe about morality is false ; Animals don't have minds ; There is no physical world at all. In eighteen lively, intelligent chapters, spanning the ancient Greeks and contemporary thinkers, Pessin examines the most unusual ideas, how they have influenced the course of Western thought, and why, despite being so odd, they just might be correct. Here is popular philosophy at its finest, sure to entertain as it enlightens."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Plato : more than what meets the eye
Aristotle : neither you will nor you won't
Augustine : forced to be free
Anselm : God is not just a good Idea
Maimonides : keeps going, and going, and going...or not?
Thomas Aquinas : God has not been on vacation since the original creation
René Descartes : "a monstrous thesis"
John Locke : true colors
Nicolas Malebranche : on honoring leeks and onions
G.W. Leibniz : synchronicity
George Berkeley : to be is to perceive, or be perceived
David Hume : stercus accidit
Friedrich Nietzsche : philosopher, psychologist
antichrist?
John McTaggart : time does not fly even when you're having fun
Ludwig Wittgenstein : the voice in my head is speaking nonsense
Hilary Putnam : thinking outside the (cranial) box
David Lewis : the incredulous stare
Thomas Nagel, David Chalmers : mind and matter, together again at last (sort of)!
Aristotle : neither you will nor you won't
Augustine : forced to be free
Anselm : God is not just a good Idea
Maimonides : keeps going, and going, and going...or not?
Thomas Aquinas : God has not been on vacation since the original creation
René Descartes : "a monstrous thesis"
John Locke : true colors
Nicolas Malebranche : on honoring leeks and onions
G.W. Leibniz : synchronicity
George Berkeley : to be is to perceive, or be perceived
David Hume : stercus accidit
Friedrich Nietzsche : philosopher, psychologist
antichrist?
John McTaggart : time does not fly even when you're having fun
Ludwig Wittgenstein : the voice in my head is speaking nonsense
Hilary Putnam : thinking outside the (cranial) box
David Lewis : the incredulous stare
Thomas Nagel, David Chalmers : mind and matter, together again at last (sort of)!
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