The Weirdness of the World

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The Weirdness of the World
188,00 lei

Categorii: Diverse, Diverse

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2024

Editura: Princeton University Press

Tip copertă: Hardcover

Nr Pag: 376

ISBN: 9780691215679

Dimensiuni: l: 15.6cm | H: 23.5cm | 748g

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The Weirdness of the World
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How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre―and why that’s a good thing.

Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical?

According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it’s hard to say.

In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues that the answers to these fundamental questions lie beyond our powers of comprehension. We can be certain only that the truth―whatever it is―is weird. Philosophy, he proposes, can aim to open―to reveal possibilities we had not previously appreciated―or to close, to narrow down to the one correct theory of the phenomenon in question. Schwitzgebel argues for a philosophy that opens.


According to Schwitzgebel’s “Universal Bizarreness” thesis, every possible theory of the relation of mind and cosmos defies common sense. According to his complementary “Universal Dubiety” thesis, no general theory of the relationship between mind and cosmos compels rational belief. Might the United States be a conscious organism―a conscious group mind with approximately the intelligence of a rabbit? Might virtually every action we perform cause virtually every possible type of future event, echoing down through the infinite future of an infinite universe? What, if anything, is it like to be a garden snail? Schwitzgebel makes a persuasive case for the thrill of considering the most bizarre philosophical possibilities.

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