El. knyga: In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections [Taylor & Francis e-book]

Acknowledgments; Overture;
Chapter 1 George Moores Hands: Scepticism
about Philosophy;
Chapter 2 Zhuangzi and that Bloody Butterfly;
Chapter 3
Rescuing Truth;
Chapter 4 Just a Little Tune I Found in My Mouth;
Chapter 5 A
Smile at Waterloo Station: On the True Mystery of Memory;
Chapter 6 The Myth
of Time Travel;
Chapter 7 Time, Tense and Physics: The Theory of Everything
but ;
Chapter 8 Seeing Time;
Chapter 9 Call No Event Future Until it is
Past;
Chapter 10 On (Almost) Nothing: Concerning Spatial Points;
Chapter 11
An Introduction to Incontinental Philosophy;
Chapter 12 Biological Reasons
for Being Cheerful?;
Chapter 13 The Soup and the Scaffolding;
Chapter 14
Dont Tell Him, Pike!;
Chapter 15 Okey Doke;
Chapter 16 The Professor of
Data-Lean Generalizations;
Chapter 17 I Kid You Not: Knowingness and Other
Shallows;
Chapter 18 My Bald Head: The Ethics of Hair-Splitting;
Chapter 19
Getting Consciousness to Speak Itself: The Great Unmet Challenge of Realistic
Fiction;
Chapter 20 Reader, I Sh***ed Him: Reflections on the Decline of the
Asterisk;
Chapter 21 Ian McEwans Saturday: Does Implausibility Matter?;
Chapter 22 Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: On Anton Chekhovs Ward No.
6;
Chapter 23 The Mystery and the Paradox of Scientific Medicine;
Chapter 24
Enhancing Humanity;
Chapter 25 On Not Choosing the Alternative: Reflections
on Living Longer;
Chapter 26 Making Use of Death;
Chapter 27 Why I am an
Atheist; Coda;

Raymond Tallis