Suicide, Organ Donation, and Meaning in Life: Some Disturbing Reflections / Saul Smilansky. Monism and the Ontology of Logic / Samuel Z. Elgin -- From Plotinus to Rorty: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps / Shamik Dasgupta -- Spatiotemporal Projectivism / Kristie Miller -- Nonsense + Unintelligibility = How to Understand Vagueness / Nicholas J.J. Smith -- Science Is Irrational - and a Good Thing, Too / Michael Strevens -- Knowing as Merely Being Correct / Stephen Hetherington -- Is Philosophy Possible? / Neil Levy -- Mind Unlimited? / Andy Clark -- Disembodied Souls Are People, Too / Michael Huemer -- Repetition and Value in an Infinite Universe / Eric Schwitzgebel -- The Fatalist Is the Most Extreme Extremist / Roy A. Sorensen -- A Defence of Extremism / David Coady -- The (Ir)Rationality of Propaganda / Catarina Dutilh Novaes -- Is Inclusion Good? / Holly Lawford-Smith -- Corruption Empowers: Political Leadership and Moral Degeneracy / Crispin Sartwell -- Power Inversion Democracy / Alexander Guerrero -- Evading and Aiding: The Moral Case Against Paying Taxes / Jason Brennan, Jessica Flanigan, and Christopher Freiman -- Suicide, Organ Donation, and Meaning in Life: Some Disturbing Reflections / Saul Smilansky.
Summary:
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
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