Uncommon Sense: The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers

by Andrew Pessin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442216093
• ISBN13: 9781442216099
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"