Andrew Pessin

Uncommon Sense

The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In eighteen lively chapters, Andrew Pessin examines the most unusual ideas from the ancient Greeks and contemporary thinkers, how they have influenced the course of Western thought, and why, despite being so odd, they just might be correct. ·Time is an illusion. ·Your thoughts do not exist inside your head. ·There is no physical world ·And more!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781442216099
• ISBN-10: 1442216093
• Artikelnr.: 41851992

Autorenporträt

By Andrew Pessin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Stop Making Sense" Chapter 1: Plato
More Than What Meets the Eye Chapter 2: Aristotle
Neither You Will Nor You Won't Chapter 3: Augustine
Forced to Be Free Chapter 4: Anselm
God is Not Just a Good Idea Chapter 5: Maimonides
Keeps Going, and Going, and Going ... Or Not? Chapter 6: Thomas Aquinas
God Has Not Been on Vacation Since the Original Creation Chapter 7: René Descartes
"A Monstrous Thesis" Chapter 8: John Locke
True Colors Chapter 9: Nicolas Malebranche
On Honoring Leeks and Vegetables Chapter 10: G. W. Leibniz
Synchronicity Chapter 11: George Berkeley
To Be Is to Perceive, or Be Perceived Chapter 12: David Hume
Stercus Accidit Chapter 13: Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Psychologist-Antichrist? Chapter 14: John McTaggart
Time Does Not Fly Even When You're Having Fun Chapter 15: Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Voice In My Head is Speaking Nonsense Chapter 16: Hilary Putnam
Thinking Outside the (Cranial) Box Chapter 17: David Lewis
The Incredulous Stare Chapter 18: Thomas Nagel, David Chalmers
Mind and Matter, Together Again at Last (Sort of)!