La médecine se sert de l'idée magique de prévention pour assurer sa maîtrise sur notre vie. Elle exploite nos peurs, elle utilise les pressions exercées par l'économie, et elle laisse entendre que, si nous suivions sa loi, nous serions sauvés. Pourtant, ni son savoir ni son pouv…
"Tibetan Buddhist writings frequently state that many of the things we perceive in the world are in fact illusory, as illusory as echoes or mirages. In Twelve Examples of Illusion, Jan Westerhoff offers an engaging look at a dozen illusions--including magic tricks, dreams, rainb…
Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and the comp…
