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Book Title
Scott Adams and Philosophy
Publication Name
Scott Adams and Philosophy
Title
Scott Adams and Philosophy
Author
Galen Foresman
Contributor
Galen Foresman (Edited by)
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9780812699777
ISBN
9780812699777
Publisher
Open Court
Genre
Philosophy
Topic
History & Surveys / Modern, Essays
Release Year
2018
Release Date
04/10/2018
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
228mm
Item Length
9in
Series
Popular Culture and Philosophy
Publication Year
2018
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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As cartoonist, author, public speaker, blogger, and periscoper, Scott Adams has had best-sellers in several different fields: his Dilbert cartoons, his meditations on the philosophy of Dilbert, his works on how to achieve success in business and all other areas of life, his two remarkable books on religion, and now his controversial work on political persuasion. Adams's two most recent best-sellers are How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (2014) and Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter (2017). Adams predicted Donald Trump's election victory (on August 13th 2016) and has explained then and more recently how Trump operates as a Master Persuader, using "weapons-grade" persuasive techniques to defeat his opponents and often to stay several moves ahead of them. Adams has provocative ideas in many areas, for example his outrageous claim that 30 percent of the population have absolutely no sense of humor, and take their cue from conventional opinion in deciding whether something is a joke, since they have no way of deciding this for themselves. In Scott Adams and Philosophy , an elite cadre of people who think for a living put Scott Adams's ideas under scrutiny. Every aspect of Adams's fascinating and infuriating system of ideas is explained and tested. Among the key topics: Does humor inform us about reality? Do religious extremists know something the rest of us don't? What are facts and how can they not matter? What happens when confirmation bias meets cognitive dissonance? How can we tell whether President Trump is a genius or just dumb-lucky? Does the Dilbert philosophy discourage the struggle for better workplace conditions? How sound is Adams's claim that "systems" thinking beats goal-directed thinking? Does Dilbert exhibit a Nietzschean or a Kierkegaardian sense of life? Or is it Sisyphian in Camus's sense? Can truth be over-rated? "The political side that is out of power is the side that hallucinates the most." If there's a serious chance we're living in a Matri x-type simulation, how should we change our behavior? Are most public policy issues just too complex and technical for most people to have an opinion about? In politics, says Adams, it's as if different people watch the same movie at the same time, some thinking it's a romantic comedy and others thinking it's a horror picture. How is that possible? Does logic play any part in persuasion?

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Open Court
ISBN-10
0812699777
ISBN-13
9780812699777
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239943652

Product Key Features

Book Title
Scott Adams and Philosophy
Author
Galen Foresman
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Surveys / Modern, Essays
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Philosophy
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
118
Lc Classification Number
Pn6727.A3z86 2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-946392
Dewey Decimal
741.5/6973
Series
Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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