A collection of quirky, entertaining, and reader-friendly short
pieces on philosophical topics that range from a theory of jerks to
the ethics of ethicists.Have you ever wondered about why some
people are jerks? Asked whether your driverless car should kill you
so that others may live? Found a robot adorable? Considered the
ethics of professional ethicists? Reflected on the philosophy of
hair? In this engaging, entertaining, and enlightening book, Eric
Schwitzgebel turns a philosopher's eye on these and other burning
questions. In a series of quirky and accessible short pieces that
cover a mind-boggling variety of philosophical topics, Schwitzgebel
offers incisive takes on matters both small (the consciousness of
garden snails) and large (time, space, and causation). A common
theme might be the ragged edge of the human intellect, where moral
or philosophical reflection begins to turn against itself, lost
among doubts and improbable conclusions. The history of philosophy
is humbling when we see how badly wrong previous thinkers have
been, despite their intellectual skills and confidence. (See, for
example, "Kant on Killing Bastards, Masturbation, Organ Donation,
Homosexuality, Tyrants, Wives, and Servants.") Some of the texts
resist thematic categorization--thoughts on the philosophical
implications of dreidels, the diminishing offensiveness of the most
profane profanity, and fatherly optimism--but are no less
interesting. Schwitzgebel has selected these pieces from the more
than one thousand that have appeared since 2006 in various
publications and on his popular blog, The Splintered Mind, revising
and updating them for this book. Philosophy has never been this
much fun.
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