Epimethean Imaginings : Philosophical and Other Meditations on Everyday Light

ISBN-13: 9781844658251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str.

Raymond Tallis

Opis

These essays, written in the spirit of Goethe's Epimetheus who traces the quick deed to the dim realm of form-combining possibilities, display the depth and breadth of Tallis's fascination with our lives. Whether discussing philosophical hardy perennials like time, or a mundane artefact like ink, Tallis challenges us to think differently about who we are and why we are. The first part of the book - Analysis - dives into the deep-end to explore some of the big questions in philosophy: perception, knowledge and belief; truth and falsehood; time; the relationship between mathematics and reality; and probability and causation. The middle section - Tetchy Interludes - takes a wry look at some aspects of contemporary art; stupidity (including the author's own); health care policy; and Christmas. The third part - Celebration - is more experimental in both its subject matter and treatment.

O autorze

Raymond Tallis trained as a doctor before going on to become Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences for his research in clinical neuroscience. He retired from medicine in 2006 to become a full-time writer. He has published fiction, poetry and over a dozen books of cultural criticism and philosophical anthropology including, most recently, Aping Mankind (2011). He has published two other collections of essays with Acumen, In Defence of Wonder (2012) and Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur (2013).