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101 Philosophy Problems
by Martin Cohen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Routledge (2007-02-06)
ISBN: 0415404010
EAN: 9780415404013
Dewy Decimal #: 100
Hardcover: 238 pages
Edition: 3
SKU: B445-1298
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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Entertaining
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-07-01
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
A very interesting and challenging book covering a whole spectrum of problems. Some of the problems require some quite lateral thinking whereas others are quite focused.The discussion section of the book provides food for thought. One improvement would be to have the discussion after each problem so you don't have to keep flicking back and forth. That aside, an entertaining read.
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Interesting
Rating  (3)
Date: 2003-04-12
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I thought that this book provided a lot of food for thought, but flicking about from page to page to read each problem and its associated discussion became rather annoying after a while. I learned a surprising amount from the book, but I really don't feel that it changed my way of thinking, or anything as exciting as that!To summarise: Interesting, and well worth reading, but hardly life-changing.
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masterpiece of eccentric genius
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-12-16
14 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have read both the English edition and now have the Chinese edition too. I quite agree with what it says about the book, viz: this is a masterpiece of eccentric genius with a world-sweeping humorous philosophy. After all, does philosophy have to be cut and dried and boring? Dr Martin Cohen, would never agree even if he has to be bitten to death twice, as the Chinese proverb has it. Because what he hates most, are those boring philosophic theories and the boring philosophers. In the book, he even suggests some philosophers are like vampires, shuddering and covering their eyes in fear and loathing at the clarity of a well-constructed sentence.The humorous Dr Martin Cohen is in fact the editor of the Philosopher, the highly respected English Journal, founded in 1923, for which the famous John Dewey, Bertrand Russell and so on used to write, as well as the frequent stirrer of waves and blower of wind in today's British philosophical world. In his book, Dr Cohen has collected 101 interesting Philosophy Problems. Together with his humorous and sharp commentary, these provide readers with a unique experience and in-depth understanding that philosophy is actually a game which everyone is able to play. The readers, as if charmed by Martin's spell, will follow his instructions and dance with him. The book has been translated into many other languages. Dr Martin Cohen says, "if the boring philosophers find this all too easy, let them answer some of the questions!"
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charming iconoclasm
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-05-23
9 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
mywyb2's main problem with the book (see review of the German Edition in the US) -- apart from alleged problems with style and translation -- is that he seems to miss its point. "Philosophy Problems" covers more or less the entire depth and breadth of philosophy, in other words an entire library. This is not a book for experts, it is a wonderful appetiser for people who do not have an awful lot of experience with philosophy. Cohen's achievement is to break things down for those readers and at the same time to narrate tongue-in-cheek and in a way that makes it quite clear that behind his brief answers, there is whole world to be discovered. He does not pretend to know it all, but challenges readers to think and to discover things for themselves. In my opinion, the charm of the book is exactly its incompleteness, its almost iconoclastic freshness. It is a book many philosophers would like to have written -- so maybe that explains mywyb2's editorial furor.
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lunchable reading
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-08-07
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the only book I've actually brought to school and read aloud to my friends at the lunchtable, an activity previously reserved for fashion magazines, social emails and last-minute textbook readings. Personally I would be happy to sit around reading Plato or Aristotle, but the average high schooler would not; even my friends who swore to hate anything having to do with that heavy, paradoxical material were entertained by and interested in this book. My personal favorites are ethical narratives, like the professor and the dog and the ones about imaginary civilizations. Definitely recommended for philosophy lovers, and especially for philosophy haters
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