Uncommon sense : the strangest ideas from the smartest philosophers /
"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 p...
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Plato : more than what meets the eye
- Aristotle : neither you will nor you won't
- Augustine : forced to be free
- Anselm : God is not just a good Idea
- Maimonides : keeps going, and going, and going ... or not?
- Thomas Aquinas : God has not been on vacation since the original creation
- René Descartes : "a monstrous thesis"
- John Locke : true colors
- Nicolas Malebranche : on honoring leeks and onions
- G.W. Leibniz : synchronicity
- George Berkeley : to be is to perceive, or be perceived
- David Hume : stercus accidit
- Friedrich Nietzsche : philosopher, psychologist--antichrist?
- John McTaggart : time does not fly even when you're having fun
- Ludwig Wittgenstein : the voice in my head is speaking nonsense
- Hilary Putnam : thinking outside the (cranial) box
- David Lewis : the incredulous stare
- Thomas Nagel, David Chalmers : mind and matter, together again at last (sort of)!
