Extreme Philosophy

Bold Ideas and a Spirit of Progress
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-31738-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 469 g

Philosophy’s value and power are greatly diminished when it operates within a too closely confined professional space. Extreme Philosophy: Bold Ideas and a Spirit of Progress serves as an antidote to the increasing narrowness of the field. It offers readers–including students and general readers–twenty internationally acclaimed philosophers who highlight and defend odd, extreme, or ‘mad’ ideas. The resulting conjectures are often provocative and bold, but always clear and accessible.

Ideas discussed in the book, include:

- propaganda need not be irrational

- science need not be rational

- extremism need not be bad

- tax evasion need not be immoral

- anarchy need not be uninviting

- democracy need not remain as it generally is

- humans might have immaterial souls

- human minds might have all-but-unlimited powers

- knowing might be nothing beyond being correct

- space and time might not be ‘out there’ in reality

- value might be the foundational part of reality

- value might differ in an infinitely repeating reality

- reality is One

- reality is vague

In brief, the volume pursues adventures in philosophy. This spirit of philosophical risk-taking and openness to new, ‘large’ ideas were vital to philosophy’s ancient origins, and they may also be fertile ground today for philosophical progress.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hetherington, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Extreme Philosophy: Some Exploratory Words

Stephen Hetherington

2. Monism and the Ontology of Logic

Samuel Z. Elgin

3. From Plotinus to Rorty: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Shamik Dasgupta

4. Spatiotemporal Projectivism

Kristie Miller

5. Nonsense + Unintelligibility = How to Understand Vagueness

Nicholas J.J. Smith

6. Science Is Irrational – and a Good Thing, Too

Michael Strevens

7. Knowing as Merely Being Correct

Stephen Hetherington

8. Is Philosophy Possible?

Neil Levy

9. Mind Unlimited?

Andy Clark

10. Disembodied Souls Are People, Too

Michael Huemer

11. Repetition and Value in an Infinite Universe

Eric Schwitzgebel

12. The Fatalist Is the Most Extreme Extremist

Roy A. Sorensen

13. A Defence of Extremism

David Coady

14. The (Ir)Rationality of Propaganda

Catarina Dutilh Novaes

15. Is Inclusion Good?

Holly Lawford-Smith

16. Corruption Empowers: Political Leadership and Moral Degeneracy

Crispin Sartwell

17. Power Inversion Democracy

Alexander Guerrero

18. Evading and Aiding: The Moral Case Against Paying Taxes

Jason Brennan, Jessica Flanigan, and Christopher Freiman

19. Suicide, Organ Donation, and Meaning in Life: Some Disturbing Reflections

Saul Smilansky

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Hetherington is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and former Editor-in-Chief of Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His recent books include What Is Epistemology? (Polity, 2019) and Defining Knowledge (Cambridge UP, 2022).