(Critical Studies in German Idealism) Kenneth R. Westphal - Grounds of Pragmatic Realism - Hegel's Internal Critique and Reconstruction of Kant's Critical Philosophy-Brill (2017) PDF
I think, therefore I laugh the flipside of philosophy by John Allen Paulos is not your average book. J.A.P. digs with his flipside of philosophy deep into our subconcious collective inds and e!poses a world full of pu""ling dialogue, points out logical parado!es and rises up to the challenge proposed by #udwig $ittgeinstein of a serious work of philosophy entirely ade out of %okes. &o say that this book is ade entirely out of %okes would not be copletely fair, but it sure akes a habit in pointing the out on a 'very( regular basis. )orally, this force of habit would have been a tedious read, but serve philosophy and especially the logical fallacies of this caliber and it not only works perfectly, but coplients the arguents to the fullest. &ake into consideration the chapter on logic which akes especially strong points about sillygiss, for e!aple* People underestimate the extent to which play enters into any serious intellectual endeavour. Doing something for the what-if fun of it frees one from the shackles or goal-directed plodding and sometimes leads to otherwise unlikely new insights., J.A.P. writes in the introduction of sillygiss and continues by describing a fairly siple one* +,oe cars rattle. -y car really is soe car. ,o no wonder y car rattles.+ .ranted, these sillygiss 'syllogiss, as they are norally called 'pun intended(( is %ust silly as the nae suggests but the fact that they are introduced like this 'and also /uite early in the book( gives soe hints of what this book puts focus on and how it is written. Infact, J.A.P. sees to have a direct love affair with linguistic parado!es, if not for the philosophical view on the attter but for the lin/uistic atter itself. J.A.P. also takes atheatical theores, proofs and theories into consideration whether it is to e!plain or to confuse the reader on a certain sub%ect0 all in good intellectual play as noted in the chapter about sillygis. +&he e!istence of boredo iplies the falsity of behaviouris, but the details of the derivation bores e.+ J.A.P. adresses, in one chapter, science fro a philosophical perspective which inturn leads to a lot of 'soewhat confusing( parado!es and eventually proves that the very sae rules that have been talked about and applied in the earlier chapters suddenly doesn1t apply anyore. I think, therefore I laugh is nothing short of these intellectual challenges and leaves no philosophical stone unturned, and no ind unboggled. It is /uite possible that you will end this book even ore confused about philosphy and lin/uistics then how you entered it, however all in good intellectual anners. Behaviourism is the philosophy of social science doctrine to the effect that psychological funcitoning is defineable in terms of overt behavioural mani- festations. It together with a mindless respect for statistical formalism has led to the publishing of whole barrels full of trivial reseach of the following form! If property x "humour say# is operationally defined in this way " number of chuckles elicited by a book of cartoons# and property y "self-suffiency say# is operationally defined in this way "number of yes answers on some self-suffiency $uestion- naire# then the correlation coefficient between x and y is .%&' "at least for students in Prof. (eorge)s *!+, psychology class#. 2ro the first page, I think, therefore I laugh will grab you fro within, aking you raise your eyebrows ore then once in an attept at trying to decipher the relationships between the atheatic, philosophic and lin/uistic e!aples and pu""les. J.A.P. continously pokes fun at other philosophers aswell as hiself as he writes down paragraph after paragraph of propositions, solutions and plain errors of the conteporary philosophical arts. I would recoend this book to anyone even reotely interested in language and philosophy, but I1d e!pect every reader to read it ore then once, because this book is definetly not for the weak. It is also incredibly entertaining and the %okes is very clever and ausing. If you can get it, get it. It1s well worth the tie, and potential headache.
(Critical Studies in German Idealism) Kenneth R. Westphal - Grounds of Pragmatic Realism - Hegel's Internal Critique and Reconstruction of Kant's Critical Philosophy-Brill (2017) PDF