1st Edition
In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections
By Raymond Tallis
Copyright 2012
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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In these lively and provocative essays, philosopher, polymath and all-round intellectual heavyweight, Raymond Tallis debunks commonplace truths, exposes woolly thinking and pulls the rug from beneath a wide range of commentator whether scientist, theologian, philosopher or pundit. Tallis takes to task much of contemporary science and philosophy, arguing that they are guilty of taking us down ever... Read more
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;
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Raymond Tallis
