Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97787 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review

• From the author of the international bestseller, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten
• Based on the hugely popular Philosopher's Magazine website: www.philosophersnet.com
• Contains brand new quizzes never seen before
• Forget Sudoku - this will really make you exercise your brain!
• Praise for The Pig That Wants to be Eaten:
• 'Examines received opinions, things we take for granted, and dissects them entertainingly' The Times

About the Author
Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom are the founding editors of The Philosophers' Magazine. Julian Baggini writes regularly for the Guardian and is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 4. His books include What's It All About? and the best-selling The Pig That Wants to be Eaten (Granta). Jeremy Stangroom's books include The Little Book of Big Ideas: Philosophy (A&C Black) and What Scientists Think (Routledge).

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.