Are You an Illusion? offers a salutary analysis of science's claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it.
Are You an Illusion? offers a salutary analysis of science's claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it.
Mary Midgley (1919-2018) was one of the most respected moral philosophers of her generation and the author of many books including The Solitary Self (2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Are we losing ourselves? 1. Changing relations to the cosmos 2. Sciencephobia and its sources 3. Transcendent numbers: Pythagoras and Plato 4. What explanation is 5. Why the idea of purpose won't go away 6. Is sexual selection natural? 7. The search for senselessness 8. The beasts that perish 9. Free will, not just free won't 10. How divided selves live 11. Hemispheres and holism 12. The supernatural aspects of physics Conclusion: On being still here. Index
Introduction: Are we losing ourselves? 1. Changing relations to the cosmos 2. Sciencephobia and its sources 3. Transcendent numbers: Pythagoras and Plato 4. What explanation is 5. Why the idea of purpose won't go away 6. Is sexual selection natural? 7. The search for senselessness 8. The beasts that perish 9. Free will, not just free won't 10. How divided selves live 11. Hemispheres and holism 12. The supernatural aspects of physics Conclusion: On being still here. Index
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