Insurmountable simplicities : 39 philosophical conundrums /
""Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this.""So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's colorful incarnation of the many philosophical conundrums that hide in the w...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский итальянский |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2006.
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| Online-ссылка: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/casa13722 |
| Итог: | ""Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this.""So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's colorful incarnation of the many philosophical conundrums that hide in the wrinkles of everyday life. Why do mirrors seem to invert left and right but not up and down? How do we know whether strawberries taste the same for everyone? Where is it written that we must observe the law, and if it is not written, why should we observe it? What if we could swap brains-or the rest of. |
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| Объем: | 1 online resource (132 pages) |
| Библиография: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231510403 9780231510400 1283007991 9781283007993 0231137222 |