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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Pessin, Andrew, 1962- author.     Subjects     Philosophy -- History.     Philosophers.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pessin, Andrew, 1962- author.       by title:      Uncommon sense : the...         MARC Display

Uncommon sense : the strangest ideas from the smartest philosophers / Andrew Pessin. by Pessin, Andrew, 1962- author. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Subjects Philosophy -- History.   Philosophers. ISBN:  9781442216099 (paperback) Description:  ix, 223 pages ; 23 cm. Edition:  First paperback edition. 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)! Requests:  0 Summary:  In 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 world. And more!   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library YA -- Nonfiction 190 Pe   Lost 02/08/2019 Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 190 Pe pbk Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 190 Pe   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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