Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13502 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Timothy Chappell - Professor of Philosophy, The Open University
"Peter Cave's lively new book is full of arresting ideas, brow-creasing
conundrums, persistent puzzles, and pleasing paradoxes. It is ideal reading
for open and inquiring minds from 12 to 112-- in fact for everybody who is
just dipping a toe into philosophy for the first time.

Michael Clark - Editor of Analysis and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Peter Cave's Can a Robot Be Human? is entertaining, witty, and highly readable. A most enjoyable and illuminating read.

Lawrence Goldstein - Professor of Philosophy, University of Kent
With skill and good humour, Peter Cave guides the reader through a maze of intriguing philosophical puzzles.

Customer Reviews

Amazing weak (but you can judge online by yourself)
I found very very weak this book. Many puzzles are quite common and you already probably discussed them. However it is the weakness of the discussion that hit me.
An example you all can judge. Search inside the books. We have a doctor who to save four people (going to die) needs to kill (to get new organs) a healthy men.
Great. A great debate on "can we kill one to save four?" but wait a minute!
It's nonsense.
The only discussion could be:
Since the 4 people all need a different new organ, "It is correct to kill one of the four and save the other three?".
For sure is a far better utilitaristhic Approach (even Dr. House would agree). We now have 1 killed people (would have been die anyhow), 1 alive healthy man and 3 alive other people.
Anyway judge by yourself online!
Too weak.

Philosophy Phun!
Phantastic philosophical puzzles delivered with style and wit. A must for any reader who asks 'why' more than once on a daily basis.

Food for thought
Peter Cave offers the chance to expose just how logically and fairly you are able to reason with 33 interesting scenarios.
The variety of subjects is broad enough to give everyone several situations in which they may find themselves having to test their phillosophical ability.