Philosophy-s value and power are greatly diminished when it operates within a too closely confined professional space. Extreme Philosophy: Bold Ideas and a Spirit of Progress serves as an antidote to the increasing narrowness of the field. It offers readers-including students and general readers-twenty internationally acclaimed philosophers who highlight and defend odd, extreme, or -mad- ideas. The resulting conjectures are often provocative and bold, but always clear and accessible.
Ideas discussed in the book, include:
- propaganda need not be irrational
- science need not be rational
- extremism need not be bad
- tax evasion need not be immoral
- anarchy need not be uninviting
- democracy need not remain as it generally is
- humans might have immaterial souls
- human minds might have all-but-unlimited powers
- knowing might be nothing beyond being correct
- space and time might not be -out there- in reali
