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Epimethean imaginings philosophical and other meditations on everyday light.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (333 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317545798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • B105 .E656 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
ANALYSES
2 Where is that itch? -- 3 Knowledge and the subjective qualities of experience -- 4 Does rover believe anything? -- 5 Draining the river and quivering the arrow -- 6 Mistaking mathematics for reality -- 7 Could the universe (even) give a toss? -- 8 Causes as (local) oomph.
TETCHY INTERLUDES
10 The fight against (e.g. my) stupidity -- 11 Colonic material of a taurine provenance -- 12 Mission drift.
CELEBRATIONS
14 Words -- 15 Voices -- 16 Two fragments of sculpted air -- 17 Lexical snacks -- 18 "Honestly, I think the world's gone quite mad" -- 19 The librarian's voice -- 20 Against the promethean libel -- 21 Reimagining the wheel -- 22 Sail: of trades and winds -- 23 Mad artefacts -- 24 A can of beans; coda: ink -- Envoi: justifying the search.
Subject: 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 probabili.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

I: -- ANALYSES

1 Seeing and believing -- 2 Where is that itch? -- 3 Knowledge and the subjective qualities of experience -- 4 Does rover believe anything? -- 5 Draining the river and quivering the arrow -- 6 Mistaking mathematics for reality -- 7 Could the universe (even) give a toss? -- 8 Causes as (local) oomph.

II: -- TETCHY INTERLUDES

9 The shocking yawn -- 10 The fight against (e.g. my) stupidity -- 11 Colonic material of a taurine provenance -- 12 Mission drift.

III -- CELEBRATIONS

13 Anteroom -- 14 Words -- 15 Voices -- 16 Two fragments of sculpted air -- 17 Lexical snacks -- 18 "Honestly, I think the world's gone quite mad" -- 19 The librarian's voice -- 20 Against the promethean libel -- 21 Reimagining the wheel -- 22 Sail: of trades and winds -- 23 Mad artefacts -- 24 A can of beans; coda: ink -- Envoi: justifying the search.

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 probabili.

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