Raymond Tallis

Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur (eBook, PDF)

and Other Essays

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

These essays from one of our most stimulating thinkers showcase Tallis's infectious fascination, indeed intoxication, with the infinite complexity of human lives and the human condition. In the title essay, we join Tallis on a stroll around his local park - and the intricate passages of his own consciousness - as he uses the motif of the walk, the amble, to occasion a series of meditations on the freedoms that only human beings possess. In subsequent essays, the flaneur thinks about his brain, his relationship to the rest of the animal kingdom, his profession of medicine and about the physical world and the claims of physical science to have rendered philosophical reflection obsolete. Taken together the essays continue Tallis's mission to elaborate a vision of humanity that rejects religious myths while not succumbing to scientism or any other form of naturalism. Written with the author's customary intellectual energy and vigour these essays provoke, move and challenge us to think differently about who we are and our place in the material world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317546603
• Artikelnr.: 41506210

Autorenporträt

Raymond Tallis

Inhaltsangabe

Overture: Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur Part I: Brains, Persons and
Beasts 1. Am I My Brain? 2. Was Schubert a Musical Brain? 3. Wickedness and
Wit: Is It All in the Brain? 4. Are Conscious Machines Possible? 5. David
Chalmers's Unsuccessful Search for the Conscious Mind 6. A Conversation
with My Neighbour 7. Silk: Metamorphoses Beyond Biology Part II: Philosophy
and Physics 8. Should We Just Shut Up and Calculate? Does Physics Need
Philosophy? 9. You Chemical Scum, You 10. Did Time Begin with a Bang? 11. A
Hasty Report from a Tearing Hurry Part III: Philosophy and Physic 12.
Medical Ethics in the Real Mess of the Real World 13. On Caring and Not
Caring 14. Coinages of the Mind: Hallucinations 15. Becoming the Prisoners
of Our Free Choices 16. The Right to an Assisted Death Epilogue: And So to
Bed: Notes towards a Philosophy of Sleep from A to Zzzzzzz