Uncommon Sense: The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers
Book Details
Author(s)
Andrew Pessin
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN / ASIN
1442216085
ISBN-13
9781442216082
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#1,352,191
Category
Philosophy
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Description
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.
