Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147690 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Synopsis
Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? Really, it won't hurt a bit...Is what you believe coherent and consistent? Or is it a jumble of contradictions? If you could design yourself a God, what would He (or She, or It) be like? Can you spot the logical flaw in an argument (even if it's hiding from you)? And how will you fare on the tricky terrain of ethics when your taboos are under the spotlight? If all this causes your brain to overheat, there is a philosophy general knowledge quiz to round off with. "Do You Think What You Think You Think?" presents a dozen quizzes that will reveal what you really think and what it all adds up to (brace yourself: it might not add up to what you expected). Challenging, fun, infuriating - sometimes all at once - this book will enable you to discover the you you never knew you were. Think of it as an MOT for your mind.

Customer Reviews

The thinking person's party game
This is a great book for showing up the holes in your thinking and, as a bonus, with its accessible, quiz-style approach it's the perfect book to pick off your bookshelf if your dinner party has run out of conversation and you can't remember where you put Pictionary. Actually maybe it's not. Maybe you'll all end up having a big fight instead.

The snotty remarks to the scoring of the philosophy quiz at the back might actually put you off taking the subject any further but everything up to that point is extremely thought-provoking, especially if you've not read much philosophy before.