In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections.

In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections.

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 ta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tallis, Raymond
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Subjects:
Philosophy in literature.
Criticism (Philosophy)
Reflection (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Philosophy in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Medicine24. 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.

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