In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour
of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest
minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums-by asserting some
very strange things. But the great philosophers don't merely make
unusual claims, they offer powerful arguments for those claims that
you can't easily dismiss. And these arguments suggest that the
world is much stranger than you could have imagined: *You neither
will, nor won't, do certain things in the future, like wear your
blue shirt tomorrow. *But your blue shirt isn't really blue,
because colors don't exist in physical objects; they're only in
your mind. *Time is an illusion. *Your thoughts are not inside your
head. *Everything you believe about morality is false. *Animals
don't have minds. *There is no physical world at all. In eighteen
lively, intelligent chapters, spanning the ancient Greeks and
contemporary thinkers, Pessin examines the most unusual ideas, how
they have influenced the course of Western thought, and why,
despite being so odd, they just might be correct. Here is popular
philosophy at its finest, sure to entertain as it enlightens.
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