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Got a Problem?: The Philosophy of Problem Solving
Drawing on philosophers from Aristotle to Kuhn, this book builds a modern account of human purpose and explores the role of problem solving in life. This is what the critical armchair philosopher has been waiting for! The author dissects the relationship between problem solving and a wide array of topics from technology to sexuality with a myriad of clever thought experiments and hard facts. Analytic philosophy is seen written in an exciting new style. You will never think of problems the same way again.
268 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 10, 2016
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July 4, 2017
Dull phenomenology of problem solving
I didn't personally get much out of this book, it seems to create a subjective description of various dimensions of problem solving, but it never becomes clear to me what value that description is supposed to have for problem solving. The book carves up problems into a few different subjective dimensions: width, depth, priority and number of subjects, based on how we experience them. That approach alone doesn't seem to me to shed a lot of light on problem solving. If there is a useful application of this approach, I was still missing it by the end of the book.
I didn't personally get much out of this book, it seems to create a subjective description of various dimensions of problem solving, but it never becomes clear to me what value that description is supposed to have for problem solving. The book carves up problems into a few different subjective dimensions: width, depth, priority and number of subjects, based on how we experience them. That approach alone doesn't seem to me to shed a lot of light on problem solving. If there is a useful application of this approach, I was still missing it by the end of the book.
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