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Autore |
Pessin Andrew <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Uncommon sense : the strangest ideas from the smartest philosophers / / Andrew Pessin |
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Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-84812-X |
9786613711618 |
1-4422-1610-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Philosophy - History |
Philosophers |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 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. ReneĢ Descartes: "A MONSTROUS THESIS"; Chapter 8. John Locke: TRUE COLORS; Chapter 9. Nicolas Malebranche: ON HONORING LEEKS AND ONIONS; Chapter 10. G. W. Leibniz: SYNCHRONICITY |
Chapter 11. George Berkeley: TO BE IS TO PERCEIVE OR BE PERCEIVEDChapter 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)!; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 worldAnd more! |
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