{"product_id":"uncommon-sense-andrew-pessin-9781442216099","title":"Uncommon Sense: The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers","description":"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: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou neither will, nor won't, do certain things in the future, like wear your blue shirt tomorrow. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBut your blue shirt isn't really blue, because colors don't exist in physical objects; they're only in your mind. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTime is an illusion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour thoughts are not inside your head.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEverything you believe about morality is false.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnimals don't have minds. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is no physical world at all.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eIn eighteen lively, intelligent chapters, spanning the ancient Greeks and contemporary thinkers, Pessin examines the most unusual ideas, how they have influenced the course of Western thought, and why, despite being so odd, they just might be correct. Here is popular philosophy at its finest, sure to entertain as it enlightens. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Pessin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442216093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442216099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Andrew Pessin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45478706381055,"sku":"9781442216099","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5eeef350-ae99-4d6a-8187-8d374b3f795b.jpg?v=1715935606","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uncommon-sense-andrew-pessin-9781442216099","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}