Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter, Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since 9-11. There are humorous parts, but also a lot of very heavy philosophy topics. A thousand years from now, Sean, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. In the CRAZY explanation, there is some kind of disunity within Tammi—there is a part of her that believes and a part that doesn’t believe. I told this story to my daughter and she said, “I believe in Santa Claus.” I also asked her if she believed in the Easter bunny and she said, “Yes. “I’m a belief in the planet Neptune!” “I am the planet Neptune! Tammi has a couple of different Tammis inside her. is the funniest book of philosophy since . One of the points therein is that, for children, belief is a passing phase; it is a fun exercise in imagination. We noticed that Tammi’s attitude toward Santa Claus was contradictory—she believed in him and she didn’t. I am now a high school senior in my local area, Great Neck. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Please try your request again later. 5. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2014. As a resource on epistemology and ontology this book is very unconvincing. My beliefs form a web or, better yet, a world. Kaplan's message burrows into the mind, beats up a few beliefs and then leaves with a triumphant bang.”--Michael Gazzaniga, Professor of Psychology University of California Santa Barbara, Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, and Founder of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society “Exceptionally interesting, rigorous and I found it not only weirdly funny but deeply moving.”--Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, University of California Berkeley,   Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences "This is truly a book that I wish I had written. He will have you laughing, thinking harder than you've ever thought, and falling in love with the process of intellectual exploration all over again. We shouldn’t say that Mount Everest is a mountain and it is not a mountain. . It’s more of a wrangling with existence and faith, I said, using Santa as a conduit. It is not your mother. Logic is not irritated, sad, depressed, or disappointed in us for being illogical or irrational. It’s a personal attack masquerading as a psychological explanation. Versions of both of them are found throughout rationalist critiques of religion and scientific accounts of human behavior in general. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. So she might never say, “I believe in Santa Claus,” but she is disposed to have dreams, fantasies, and feelings related to Saint Nick. That is, we shouldn’t say of the same thing that it is A and not A. Because who hasn’t always wondered how to set up a mathematically perfect Secret Santa? Lighthearted and diverting with Christmasy diagrams, sketches and graphs, equations, Markov chains, and matrices, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingsful of mathematical marvels. His investigation touches on a myriad of topics, including the existence of napkins, the differences between birthday cake and fruitcake, and whether Santa is American. “I’m a belief in pixies!” No answer. Here is an example of how this is supposed to work: George is friends with Eddie, and one day Eddie shoplifts. Well, what does the question mean -- and what does it mean to you? The first title, Does Santa Exist?, with the words stressed more or less equally, is for readers who would like to consider whether or not the kindly, bearded gift giver exists. A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa from a co-executive producer ofThe Big Bang Theory Metaphysics isn t ordinarily much of a laughing matter. The point of the joke is that “sane” and “truthful” need to be defined in such a way that we can tell who is crazy and lying without smuggling in our own other beliefs. Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2015. But people believe different things at different times and in different contexts. I’m calling it a path because logic is something that we choose to make part of our lives because we want it to do something for us. The path of logic views contradiction as a problem that needs solving and gives us a set of tools for thinking more clearly that can get us out of our fix. - … 09/22/2014Comedy writer, philosophy scholar, and coexecutive producer of the hit show The Big Bang Theory, Kaplan begins his elliptical examination of the ontology of Santa Claus by introducing readers to a conundrum he faced when his son began kindergarten: how to deal with other parents who didn’t want Kaplan’s son telling their children that Santa didn’t exist. I am 8 years old. Or he could have applied the analytic X-ray to the concept of “support”—maybe the way good people support their friends is by turning them in when they commit crimes so they can receive help before they get in deeper trouble. Author by : Kanti Lal Das Language : en Publisher by : Northern Book Centre Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read : 47 Total Download : 373 File Size : 42,6 Mb GET BOOK. These are the so-called logical paradoxes—sentences that, logically speaking, must be both true and false. Start by marking “Does Santa Exist? A Philosophical Exploration of Santa's Existence. If the sentence is true, then it is false. Let’s imagine Tammi goes home and goes to bed.

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