Ø Dissolutions

Description

Some of the oldest problems in philosophy are not solved here so much as dissolved — shown to be artefacts of a bad starting assumption that evaporate once the assumption is replaced. Ø Dissolutions walks through twelve of them one at a time: why there is something rather than nothing, the mind–body problem, the hard problem of consciousness, personal identity, free will, the is–ought gap, the measurement problem, and more. In each case the working is fully shown — not “here is a clever answer,” but “here is why the question stops being a question.” The first of the corpus’s two philosophical volumes, and the place its method is easiest to watch in action.