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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais italien |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2006.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/casa13722 |
Table des matières:
- Room 88
- About a useless project
- The poet as a young man
- The chain of events leading up to the goal
- Zombie Inc. sleeping pills
- Partial amnesia
- Person transplant
- My ice cream, your ice cream
- Playing lotto in Reverse City
- Lucky numbers
- The invisible disorder
- A missive from the bell-ringer
- Sparkling bubbles
- Dates of birth
- Four-Seasons Island
- Lost beauty spots
- Hic sunt leones
- Reflections
- The last case of the President of Amoebas
- The hidden statue
- A cupboard in pieces
- Holter monitor
- Row 13
- Train cancelled
- Satellites
- Verbatim
- The intelligent dictionary
- The traveler's pictionary
- Ink marks
- Forced choices
- What does the majority want?
- Law number One
- Proud to be third
- The placebo effect
- Interesting!
- Self-reference self-explained
- The surprise visit
- A risky cake
- Universal acid.