In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781322102634
Subjects: Philosophy in literature; Reflection (Philosophy); Criticism (Philosophy); Philosophy; Literature; Philosophie dans la littérature; Réflexion (Philosophie); Criticisme; Philosophie; Littérature
Table of contents: title: 1. George Moore's hands : scepticism about philosophy; title: 2. Zhuangzi and that bloody butterfly; title: 3. Rescuing truth; title: 4. Just a little tune I found in my mouth; title: 5. A smile at Waterloo Station : on the true mystery of memory; title: 6. The myth of time travel; title: 7. Time, tense and physics : the theory of everything but ...; title: 8. Seeing time; title: 9. Call no even future until it is past; title: 10. On (almost) nothing : concerning spatial points; title: 11. An introduction to incontinental philosophy; title: 12. Biological reasons for being cheerful?; title: 13. The soup and the scaffolding; title: 14. Don't tell him, Pike!; title: 15. Okey doke; title: 16. The professor of data-lean generalizations; title: 17. "I kid you not" : knowingness and other shallows; title: 18. My bald head : the ethics of hair-splitting; title: 19. Getting consciousness to speak itself : the great unmet challenge of realistic fiction; title: 20. Reader, I sh***ed him : reflections on the decline of the asterisk; title: 21. Ian McEwan's Saturday : does implausibility matter?; title: 22. Literature, philosophy and medicine : on Anton Chekhov's "Ward no. 6"; title: 23. The mystery and the paradox of scientific medicine; title: 24. Enhancing humanity; title: 25. On not choosing the alternative : reflections on living longer; title: 26. Making use of death; title: 27. Why I am an Atheist.