Extreme Philosophy
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Extreme Philosophy

Bold Ideas and a Spirit of Progress

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Extreme Philosophy

Bold Ideas and a Spirit of Progress

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781003824916
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. List of Contributors
  8. 1 Extreme Philosophy: Some Exploratory Words
  9. 2 Monism and the Ontology of Logic
  10. 3 From Plotinus to Rorty: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
  11. 4 Spatiotemporal Projectivism
  12. 5 Nonsense + Unintelligibility = How to Understand Vagueness
  13. 6 Science Is Irrational – And a Good Thing, Too
  14. 7 Knowing as Merely Being Correct
  15. 8 Is Philosophy Possible?
  16. 9 Mind Unlimited?
  17. 10 Disembodied Souls Are People, Too
  18. 11 Repetition and Value in an Infinite Universe
  19. 12 The Fatalist Is the Most Extreme Extremist
  20. 13 A Defence of Extremism
  21. 14 The (Ir)Rationality of Propaganda
  22. 15 Is Inclusion Good?
  23. 16 Corruption Empowers: Political Leadership and Moral Degeneracy
  24. 17 Power Inversion Democracy
  25. 18 Evading and Aiding: The Moral Case Against Paying Taxes
  26. 19 Suicide, Organ Donation, and Meaning in Life: Some Disturbing Reflections
  27. Index