TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tallis,Raymond
TI  - Epimethean imaginings: philosophical and other meditations on everyday light
SN  - 9781317545798
AV  - B105 .E656 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Reflection (Philosophy)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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