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Epimethean Imaginings: Philosophical and Other Meditations on Everyday Light

Autor Raymond Tallis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2016
These essays, written in the spirit of Goethe’s Epimetheus who "traces the quick deed to the dim realm of form-combining possibilities", display the depth and breadth of Tallis’s fascination with our lives. Whether discussing philosophical "hardy perennials" like time, or a mundane artefact like ink, Tallis challenges us to think differently about who we are and why we are.

The first part of the book – Analysis – dives into the deep-end to explore some of the big questions in philosophy: perception, knowledge and belief; time; the relationship between mathematics and reality; and probability and causation. The middle section – Tetchy Interludes – takes a wry look at some aspects of contemporary art; stupidity (including the author’s own); and Christmas. The third part – Celebration – is more experimental in both its subject matter and treatment. It celebrates the complexity of ordinary, everyday consciousness by contemplating the miracle of speech, artefacts that have transformed our lives (and what they reveal about our cognition) such as the wheel, the sail, and ink; and ‘snapshots’ of the author’s own consciousness on an ordinary day, of past consciousness, as captured in historical memory.

Notwithstanding their diversity in theme and style, these essays share the common aim of discovering and celebrating the submerged riches in the "quick deeds" of our everyday lives and perceptions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138139664
ISBN-10: 1138139661
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Part 1: Analyses  Prefatory Note  1. Seeing and Believing  2. Where is that Itch? Philosophy from Scratch  3. Knowledge and the Subjective Qualities of Experience  4. Does Rover Believe Anything?  5. Draining the River and Quivering the Arrow: Against the Flow and Direction of Time  6. Mistaking Mathematics for Reality: Where Zeno Went Wrong and So Many Followed  7. Could the Universe (Even) Give a Toss?  8. Causes as (Local) Oomph  Part 2: Tetchy Interludes  Prefatory Note  9. The Shocking Yawn: Art up its Arse  10. The Fight Against (e.g. my) Stupidity  11. Colonic Material of a Taurine Provenance  12. Mission Drift  Part 3: Celebrations  Prefatory Note  13. Ante-Room: On Waiting  14. Voices – from a distance  15. Two Fragments of Sculptured Air: Aaarh and Oops!  16. Lexical Snacks  17. "Honestly, the World’s gone Quite Mad"  18. The Librarian’s Voice  19. Against the Promethean Libel  20. Re-imagining the wheel  21. Sail  22. Mad artefacts  23. A Can of Beans  Coda: Ink – the artefact of artefacts.  Envoi: Justifying the Search.  Index



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Another bumper collection of wit, wisdom and critique from one of our most stimulating thinkers.