Raymond Tallis

In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together Tallis's most popular essays and journalism from the past decade, revised for publication in book form.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781138135079
• ISBN-10: 1138135070
• Artikelnr.: 45053494

Autorenporträt

Raymond Tallis

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Overture
Chapter 1 George Moore's Hands: Scepticism about Philosophy
Chapter 2 Zhuangzi and that Bloody Butterfly
Chapter 3 Rescuing Truth
Chapter 4 Just a Little Tune I Found in My Mouth
Chapter 5 A Smile at Waterloo Station: On the True Mystery of Memory
Chapter 6 The Myth of Time Travel
Chapter 7 Time, Tense and Physics: The Theory of Everything but ...
Chapter 8 Seeing Time
Chapter 9 Call No Event Future Until it is Past
Chapter 10 On (Almost) Nothing: Concerning Spatial Points
Chapter 11 An Introduction to Incontinental Philosophy
Chapter 12 Biological Reasons for Being Cheerful?
Chapter 13 The Soup and the Scaffolding
Chapter 14 Don't Tell Him, Pike!
Chapter 15 Okey Doke
Chapter 16 The Professor of Data-Lean Generalizations
Chapter 17 "I Kid You Not": Knowingness and Other Shallows
Chapter 18 My Bald Head: The Ethics of Hair-Splitting
Chapter 19 Getting Consciousness to Speak Itself: The Great Unmet Challenge of Realistic Fiction
Chapter 20 Reader, I Sh***ed Him: Reflections on the Decline of the Asterisk
Chapter 21 Ian McEwan's Saturday: Does Implausibility Matter?
Chapter 22 Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: On Anton Chekhov's "Ward No. 6"
Chapter 23 The Mystery and the Paradox of Scientific Medicine
Chapter 24 Enhancing Humanity
Chapter 25 On Not Choosing the Alternative: Reflections on Living Longer
Chapter 26 Making Use of Death
Chapter 27 Why I am an Atheist
Coda