LEADER 04065oam 22006733n 450 001 9910458742803321 005 20200324081320.0 010 $a1-138-13507-0 010 $a1-315-72993-8 010 $a1-84465-526-1 010 $a1-317-54741-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001351470 035 $a(EBL)1779151 035 $a(OCoLC)890090598 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001160593 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11776796 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001160593 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11121093 035 $a(PQKB)11367068 035 $a(OCoLC)874812850 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1779151 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1779151 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10817855 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL641514 035 $a(OCoLC)946162546 035 $a(OCoLC-P)946162546 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781315729930 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001351470 100 $a20160407d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn defence of wonder and other philosophical reflections 210 $a[Place of publication not identified] $cRoutledge$d2016 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-84465-525-3 311 $a1-322-10263-5 327 $a""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Overture: In Defence of Wonder""; ""1. George Moorea???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 a???""; ""8. Seeing Time""; ""9. Call No Event Future Until it is Past"" 327 $a""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. Dona???t Tell Him, Pike!""; ""15. Okey Doke""; ""16. The Professor of Data-Lean Generalizations""; ""17. a???I Kid You Nota???: 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"" 327 $a""21. Ian McEwana???s Saturday: Does Implausibility Matter?""""22. Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: On Anton Chekhova???s a???Ward No. 6a???""; ""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"" 330 $aIn 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 2 606 $aPhilosophy in literature 606 $aCriticism (Philosophy) 606 $aReflection (Philosophy) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhilosophy in literature. 615 0$aCriticism (Philosophy) 615 0$aReflection (Philosophy) 676 $a257 700 $aTallis$b Raymond$0514405 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458742803321 996 $aIn defence of wonder and other philosophical reflections$92072191 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01204nas 2200409 c 450 001 9910671791803321 005 20201005192354.0 035 $a(CKB)3390000000017731 035 $a(DE-599)ZDB2225008-6 035 $a(OCoLC)644274231 035 $a(DE-101)978789156 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000017731 100 $a20060303a20059999 |y | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCode of federal regulations$eCFR$hTitle 2$iGrants and agreements$fNational Archives and Records Administration 210 31$aWashington, DC$d2005- 215 $aOnline-Ressource 300 $aGesehen am 04.10.18 517 1 $aCode of federal regulations / 2 517 3 $aCFR 531 $aCODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS - TITLE 2 608 $aZeitschrift$2gnd-content 676 $a050 676 $a310 686 $aINTRECHT$qDE-1a$2fid 712 02$aUSA$bNational Archives and Records Administration$4isb 801 0$b0001 801 1$bDE-101 801 2$b9999 906 $aJOURNAL 912 $a9910671791803321 996 $aCode of federal regulations$93042827 997 $aUNINA