04065oam 22006733n 450 991045874280332120200324081320.01-138-13507-01-315-72993-81-84465-526-11-317-54741-1(CKB)2550000001351470(EBL)1779151(OCoLC)890090598(SSID)ssj0001160593(PQKBManifestationID)11776796(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001160593(PQKBWorkID)11121093(PQKB)11367068(OCoLC)874812850(MiAaPQ)EBC1779151(Au-PeEL)EBL1779151(CaPaEBR)ebr10817855(CaONFJC)MIL641514(OCoLC)946162546(OCoLC-P)946162546(FlBoTFG)9781315729930(EXLCZ)99255000000135147020160407d2016 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtccrIn defence of wonder and other philosophical reflections[Place of publication not identified] Routledge20161 online resource (257 p.)Includes index.1-84465-525-3 1-322-10263-5 ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Overture: In Defence of Wonder""; ""1. George Moore�s Hands: Scepticism about Philosophy""; ""2. Zhuangzi and that Bloody Butterfly""; ""3. Rescuing Truth""; ""4. Just a Little Tune I Found in my Mouth""; ""5. A Smile at Waterloo Station: On the True Mystery of Memory""; ""6. The Myth of Time Travel""; ""7. Time, Tense and Physics: The Theory of Everything but �""; ""8. Seeing Time""; ""9. Call No Event Future Until it is Past""""10. On (Almost) Nothing: Concerning Spatial Points""""11. An Introduction to Incontinental Philosophy""; ""12. Biological Reasons for Being Cheerful?""; ""13. The Soup and the Scaffolding""; ""14. Don�t Tell Him, Pike!""; ""15. Okey Doke""; ""16. The Professor of Data-Lean Generalizations""; ""17. “I Kid You Not�: Knowingness and Other Shallows""; ""18. My Bald Head: The Ethics of Hair-Splitting""; ""19. Getting Consciousness to Speak Itself: The Great Unmet Challenge of Realistic Fiction""; ""20. Reader, I Sh***ed Him: Reflections on the Decline of the Asterisk""""21. Ian McEwan�s Saturday: Does Implausibility Matter?""""22. Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: On Anton Chekhov�s “Ward No. 6�""; ""23. The Mystery and the Paradox of Scientific Medicine""; ""24. Enhancing Humanity""; ""25. On Not Choosing the Alternative: Reflections on Living Longer""; ""26. Making Use of Death""; ""27. Why I am an Atheist""; ""Coda: Parmenides: The Great Awakening""; ""Index""In these lively and provocative essays, philosopher, polymath and all-round intellectual heavyweight, Raymond Tallis debunks commonplace truths, exposes woolly thinking and pulls the rug from beneath a wide range of commentator whether scientist, theologian, philosopher or pundit. Tallis takes to task much of contemporary science and philosophy, arguing that they are guilty of taking us down ever narrowing conduits of problem solving that only invite ever more complex responses and in doing so have lost sight of ""wonder"" - the metaphysical intoxication that first gave birth to philosophy 2Philosophy in literatureCriticism (Philosophy)Reflection (Philosophy)Electronic books.Philosophy in literature.Criticism (Philosophy)Reflection (Philosophy)257Tallis Raymond514405OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910458742803321In defence of wonder and other philosophical reflections2072191UNINA