A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain - now reissued with 10 brand new thought experiments.
Julian Baggini's books include Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, the bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten, Do They Think You're Stupid?, The Ego Trick, The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think, Freedom Regained, and the bestselling How The World Thinks, all published by Granta Books. He has written for various newspapers, magazines, academic journals and think tanks. His website is microphilosophy.net.
Baggini offers us a tempting smorgasbord of some of the most
baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever
envisaged... enjoy these mind-boggling tales from the outer limit
of thought
*Guardian*
This book is like the Sudoku of moral philosophy: apply your mind
to any of its "thought experiments" while stuck on the Tube, and
quickly be transported out of rush-hour hell
*New Statesman*
Thinking again is what this taut, incisive, bullet-hard book is
dedicated to promoting
*Sunday Times*
An eloquent and engaging introduction to the major philosophical
quandaries
*Scotland on Sunday*
An engaging read ... It's one to which I'll keep returning -
whenever I feel like an argument and have nobody to argue with
*Sunday Herald*
An eloquent and engaging introduction to the major philosophical
quandaries about identity, knowledge, morality and rationality.It
is the best kind of popularising work: amusing enough to provide an
easy way into difficult questions, but uncompromising in terms of
the meanings deduced from the fables
*Scotland on Sunday*
Baggini frames various philosophical conundrums so that we focus on
the nub of the matter without the extraneous considerations that
complicate them in real life... helpfully cross- referenced and
ideal for reading aloud
*Metro (London)*
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