Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny: Mind-Blowing Philosophical Ideas [Hardcover]

Introduction: Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny??Part 1: What Should We Do???1. Having a Disability Can Be Good for You? 2. Lying Is Always Wrong? 3. Not Being An Evil Bastard Is Hard? 4. Polyamory Is Not Cheating? 5. Theres No Duty to Obey the Law? 6. More Lives Better Than Good Lives? 7. We Should Not Reproduce? 8. Taxes Arent Just Theft, Theyre Much Worse? 9. Your Property Isnt Really Yours? 10. Ignorance Is the Foundation of Justice? 11. Freedom Without Alternatives? 12. Were Not Responsible? 13. It's Your Fault Youre Not Happy? 14. More Than One True Morality? 15. Moral Facts Are Magic Tricks??Part 2: What Is True???16.? Bias Is Good? 17.? Against Doing Your Own Research? 18.? Anything Can Be Art? 19.? Sex Is Socially Constructed? 20.? Conscious Intelligent Robots Are Virtually Inevitable? 21.? Consciousness Is Everywhere? 22.? Consciousness Is Not What It Seems? 23.? Theres No Self? 24.? The Past and Future Are as Real as Now? 25.? We Can't Know If Scientific Theories Are Correct? 26.? The World Is Almost Certainly Not the Way It Seems? 27.? Reality Doesnt Matter? 28.? Should You Believe Nothing???29.? Nothingness: The Contradiction at the Ground of Reality

Anyone new to philosophy soon encounters new ideas that challenge their hidden biases and cherished beliefs, or are at odds with common sense and tradition. Yet, these philosophical ideas are backed by strong arguments, arguments so strong that its difficult to identify what is wrong with them.

A mind-bending collection of brief, plausible arguments for a wide variety of unusual philosophical views, by an impressive range of contributors. If it doesn't rouse you from your dogmatic slumbers, you must be deeply asleep. It will inspire you to rethink the reasons behind your implicit common sense assumptions about ethics and the nature of reality.

-- Els