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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy - Softcover

Paulos, John Allen

 
9780140295481: I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140295488 ISBN 13: 9780140295481
Verlag: Penguin Books, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Wittgenstein once remarked that 'a serious and good philosophical work could be written that consisted entirely of jokes'. Inspired by this idea, John Allen Paulos shows how conceptual humour and analytic philosophy resonate at a very deep level. Both evince a keen concern for language and its (mis)interpretations; both require a free intelligence in a relatively open society, as well as a sceptical tendency towards debunking; and both are quintessentially human. I THINK THEREFORE I LAUGH ispacked with jokes, stories, parables, puzzles and anecdotes, all of which relate in one way or another to various philosophical problems, leading to some unexpected insights.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Allen Paulos is professor of mathematics at Temple University and has long had an interest in analystic philosophy and its puzzles. He is the bestselling author of INNUMERACY, BEYOND NUMERACY, A MATEHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER and ONCE UPON A NUMBER, all published by Penguin. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children.

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Verlag
Penguin Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140295488
ISBN 13 
9780140295481
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
178
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