A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical MisadventuresMIT Press, 10. nóv. 2020 - 384 síður A collection of quirky, entertaining, and reader-friendly short pieces on philosophical topics that range from a theory of jerks to the ethics of ethicists. Have you ever wondered about why some people are jerks? Asked whether your driverless car should kill you so that others may live? Found a robot adorable? Considered the ethics of professional ethicists? Reflected on the philosophy of hair? In this engaging, entertaining, and enlightening book, Eric Schwitzgebel turns a philosopher's eye on these and other burning questions. In a series of quirky and accessible short pieces that cover a mind-boggling variety of philosophical topics, Schwitzgebel offers incisive takes on matters both small (the consciousness of garden snails) and large (time, space, and causation). A common theme might be the ragged edge of the human intellect, where moral or philosophical reflection begins to turn against itself, lost among doubts and improbable conclusions. The history of philosophy is humbling when we see how badly wrong previous thinkers have been, despite their intellectual skills and confidence. (See, for example, “Kant on Killing Bastards, Masturbation, Organ Donation, Homosexuality, Tyrants, Wives, and Servants.”) Some of the texts resist thematic categorization—thoughts on the philosophical implications of dreidels, the diminishing offensiveness of the most profane profanity, and fatherly optimism—but are no less interesting. Schwitzgebel has selected these pieces from the more than one thousand that have appeared since 2006 in various publications and on his popular blog, The Splintered Mind, revising and updating them for this book. Philosophy has never been this much fun. |
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Forgetting as an Unwitting Confession | 15 |
Cheeseburger Ethics or How Often Do Ethicists | 21 |
On Not Seeking Pleasure Much | 33 |
Imagining Yourself in Anothers Shoes versus | 39 |
A Theory of Hypocrisy | 49 |
The Moral Compass and the Liberal Ideal in Moral Education | 69 |
Cute Al and Zombie Robots | 73 |
Should Your Driverless Car Kill You So Others May Live? | 75 |
What Happens to Democracy When the Experts | 167 |
Birthday Cake and a Chapel | 175 |
Possible Psychology of a Matrioshka Brain | 181 |
A TwoSeater Homunculus | 189 |
Is the United States Literally Conscious? | 195 |
Might You Be a Cosmic Freak? | 201 |
Voluntarism | 207 |
How Everything You Do Might Have Huge Cosmic | 213 |
Cute Al and the ASIMO Problem | 79 |
My Daughters Rented Eyes | 85 |
Someday Your Employer Will Technologically Control Your Moods | 89 |
Cheerfully Suicidal Al Slaves | 93 |
We Would Have Greater Moral Obligations to Conscious Robots than to Otherwise Similar Humans | 97 |
How Robots and Monsters Might Destroy Human Moral Systems | 101 |
Our Possible Imminent Divinity | 107 |
Skepticism Godzilla and the Artificial Computerized ManyBranching You | 111 |
How to Accidentally Become a Zombie Robot | 117 |
Regrets and Birthday Cake | 127 |
A Seemingly Foolish Game That Contains the Moral World in Miniature | 129 |
Does It Matter If the Passover Story Is Literally True? | 133 |
Memories of My Father | 137 |
Flying Free of the Deathbed with Technological Help | 141 |
Thoughts on Conjugal Love | 145 |
Knowing What You Love | 149 |
Profanity Inflation Profanity Migration and | 161 |
GoldfishPool Immortality | 223 |
Are Garden Snails Conscious? Yes | 229 |
Truth Dare and Wonder | 239 |
Whats in Peoples Stream of Experience during | 247 |
Why Metaphysics Is Always Bizarre | 253 |
The Philosopher of Hair | 259 |
Kant on Killing Bastards Masturbation | 267 |
Nazi Philosophers World War I and the Grand | 273 |
Against Charity in the History of Philosophy | 283 |
Invisible Revisions | 289 |
Blogging and Philosophical Cognition | 295 |
Will Future Generations Find | 305 |
Acknowledgments | 311 |
References | 335 |
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