What Don't You Know? Philosophical Provocations by Michael C. LaBossiere

by Michael C. LaBossiere

Book is in used-good condition. Could be missing access codes or other accessories. May be ex-library inventory.

Genres: Philosophy

Paperback

First published May 6, 2008

About the author

Michael LaBossiere is a guy from Maine who went to school in Ohio and ended up a philosophy professor in Florida.

While acquiring his doctorate in philosophy at Ohio State University, he earned his ramen noodle money by writing for GDW, TSR, R. Talsorian Games, and Chaosium. After graduate school, he became a philosophy professor at Florida A&M University. His first philosophy book, What Don't You Know?, was published in 2008. He continues to write philosophy and gaming material. He is also a blogger, but these days who isn't?

When not writing, he enjoys running, gaming and the martial arts. Thanks to a quadriceps tendon tear in 2009, he was out of running for a while, but returned to the trails and wrote a book about it, Of Tendon & Trail.

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

Even with the understanding that What Don't You Know is a compilation of columns from a magazine feature and that the arguments were presented to provoke rather than answer, the whole effect was unsatisfying regardless of which side I happened to fall on each provocation. The quick pace and conversational tone rightly intended to make the material approachable, but instead resulted in far too many straw men and other examples of simplistic reasoning. I can see the value of many of the sections, if taken individually in their source publication, but they lose any edge they might have anthologized together like this.