Stretch your mind and give your intellect a workout. Put your neurons through their paces with this little book filled with philosophical quizzes, games, and thought experiments.
This is Not A Book will stretch you mind, put your neurons through their paces, and challenge the foundations of your opinions and knowledge itself. You'll discover that you can't even trust your own senses - even though they're all you have.
Filled with philosophical puzzles that have intrigued the greatest minds, quizzes that reveal the inconsistency of our ideas, insoluble logical paradoxes, and moral dilemmas that force us to confront the consequences of our beliefs. This is Not A Book will give your intellect a workout that you'll thoroughly enjoy.
This is Not A Book is divided into sections corresponding to the major branches of philosophy. Each section includes an overview of the subject and brief profiles of the philosophers whose work has influenced thinking in that area, together with relevant quizzes, games, mental exercises, and 'thought experiments' in which you are asked to take on a particular view of reality and follow where it leads. Throughout the book, the tools of philosophy are applied to everyday situations - an the everyday will never seem commonplace again.
