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

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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)

'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 Is it right to eat a pig that wants to be eaten? Are you really reading this book cover, or are you in a simulation? If God is all-powerful, could he create a square circle? Here are 100 of the most intriguing thought experiments from the history of philosophy and ideas - questions to leave you inspired, informed and scratching your head, dumbfounded. A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain. '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
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A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain.
A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain - now reissued with 10 brand new thought experiments.

Product details

ISBN
9781803510477
Published
2024-02-01
Publisher
Granta Books
Weight
244 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
128 mm
Thickness
20 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
352

Biographical note

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, and Freedom Regained, all published by Granta Books. He has written for various newspapers, magazines, academic journals and think tanks. His website is microphilosophy.net.