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Uncommon Sense - Andrew Pessin

Uncommon Sense

The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers

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Buch | Softcover
228 Seiten
2015
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1609-9 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
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!
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.
 

Andrew Pessin is professor of philosophy at Connecticut College, although he is perhaps best known for his appearances as The Genius on the Late Show with David Letterman.  He is the author of The God Question: What Famous Thinkers From Plato To Dawkins Have Said About the Divine and The 60-Second Philosopher: Expand Your Mind on a Minute or so a Day!.  

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)!

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.4.2015
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 327 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10 1-4422-1609-3 / 1442216093
ISBN-13 978-1-4422-1609-9 / 9781442216099
Zustand Neuware
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