03148nam 2200589 a 450 991077920670332120230802005505.01-280-84812-X97866137116181-4422-1610-7(CKB)2550000000106986(EBL)951057(SSID)ssj0000702016(PQKBManifestationID)12218125(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000702016(PQKBWorkID)10680580(PQKB)10065679(MiAaPQ)EBC951057(Au-PeEL)EBL951057(CaPaEBR)ebr10573578(CaONFJC)MIL371161(OCoLC)802058259(EXLCZ)99255000000010698620120209d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUncommon sense[electronic resource] the strangest ideas from the smartest philosophers /Andrew PessinLanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishersc20121 online resource (235 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-1608-5 1-4422-1609-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. René Descartes: "A MONSTROUS THESIS"; Chapter 8. John Locke: TRUE COLORS; Chapter 9. Nicolas Malebranche: ON HONORING LEEKS AND ONIONS; Chapter 10. G. W. Leibniz: SYNCHRONICITYChapter 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 AuthorIn 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!PhilosophyHistoryPhilosophersPhilosophyHistory.Philosophers.190Pessin Andrew1962-1545967MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779206703321Uncommon sense3801216UNINA