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Introduction 1
Metaphysics and Epistemology: What There is and What You (Don't) Know About it
The Mind 7
A mind for all reasons 7
Cloning and the mind 9
Ghosts and minds 11
Mind and medicine 16
Politics and belief 18
God and Purpose 21
Does God hate? 21
Evolution, analogy and complexity 24
First God, then the mind 26
Intelligent design and science 28
Threat by design? 30
Powerless prayer 33
Scepticism 38
The unbreakable sceptic 38
The value of extreme scepticism 40
Love 43
Who do you love? 43
Transcendent argument for true love 46
Time and Chance 49
Meeting yourself 49
No chance for chance 53
The implausible secret 55
Ethics and Political and Social Thought: Good, Evil, Politics and all that Stuff
Gender and Ethics 61
Of gender and numbers in academics and athletics 61
Bad girls 63
The female brain 65
Gender segregation in education 68
Porn and princes 71
The morality of same-sex marriage 74
Technology and Ethics 77
Evil spam 77
The neutral net 79
V is for video game ... and violence 82
Virtual violence and moral purpose 84
This is your brain on video games 86
A better brain 88
Memory and morality 91
The case for nanoweapons 93
RFID and privacy 96
Gene therapy and sports 98
Gender selection 100
Ownership and wayward genes 103
Is biomimicry bad? 105
Medical Ethics 108
Fat, bacteria and the state 108
Lies ... the best medicine? 111
Media and Ethics 113
A million (not so) little lies 113
Anonymous ethics 115
Anonymous sources 117
Murder, money and the media 120
The immoral secret 122
Animals 126
Letting species die: the case for extinction 126
Foie gras and philosophy 130
Art and Ethics 134
Lights, camera, blood 134
Artists' rights 139
Philosophers, Atheists, Choosers and Frauds 142
Immoral philosophers? 142
God, ethics and atheism 147
Is choice bad? 149
Fraud, Science and Ethics 152
Political and Social Thought 155
(Search) engines of repression 155
Closing ranks 157
Hazing and deterrence 159
Forced freedom 162
John Locke and cyber-vigilantism 164
Terror and torture 166
Mining your business 169
Patriot games 171
Terror and medicine 173
Appearance 175
Conclusion 178
Notes 179
Bibliography 188
Index 193
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Jojo Jessy
reviewed What Don't You KNow?: Philosophical Provocations on November 12, 2014
What Don't You KNow?
The philosopher Richard Rorty, who would be 76 tomorrow, died on June 8 of this year of pancreatic cancer, in Palo Alto, California. All of his books, dog-eared, underlined, and well-thumbed, including his most recent one, Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007), are on my shelves. Along with a lot of other people, I found Rorty just about the most interesting philosopher in America in the last quarter of the 20th century. I don't propose to tell the whole story here of what Rorty thought, but I want to refer to a couple of his ideas that got me (and others) excited about his thinking.
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