This is Not a Book

Adventures in Popular Philosophy
Michael Picard
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Stretch your mind and give your intellect a workout. Put your neurons through their paces with this little book filled with philosophical quizzes, games, and thought experiments.

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The everyday will never seem commonplace again.

This is Not a Book will stretch your mind, put your neurons through their paces and challenge the foundations of your opinions and of knowledge itself.

Filled with philosophical puzzles that have intrigued great minds of many nations for centuries, insoluble logical paradoxes and moral dilemmas, This is Not a Book provides an intellect workout that will force you to confront the consequences of your beliefs.

This is Not a Book is divided into four sections, reflecting the major fields of philosophy: Logic, Epistemology, Ethics and Metaphysics. Each section includes a subject overview and philosopher profiles, as well as quizzes, games and thought experiments which apply the tools of philosophy to ultimate questions and everyday life.

Thought-provoking and logic-defying, This is Not a Book will test your view on reality.

About Michael Picard
Trained in mathematical logic and analytical philosophy, but at home in Eastern thought, Dr Michael Picard's interests in psychology include social and cognitive approaches to perception and language, with emphasis on history of psychology and cross-cultural issue. He moderates Cafe Philosophy, weekly community-based participatory philosophy dialogues that have run in Victoria, Canada, for over a decade.

ISBN: 9781741752489
Australian Pub.: October 2007
Edition: 1
Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN
Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN
Subject: Popular philosophy
Edition Number: 1
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