Why couldn't Hellen Keller drive?

[Ghoulish Delight]

I almost picked up a more recent work by Hofstedter, but it took me eons to get through GEB, so I wasn't really in the mood to keep on that track. Quintet is significantly more contemporary (1998). It's a little bit more on the popcorn side, but has some interesting perspectives.

[Alex]

Now that sounds great (somehow I missed it when last in a phase of reading on this topic though it would have been relatively new when last I was doing so) and I've already ordered it from Amazon.

On a side note, can you imagine the hubris necessary to set out to write about a book that not only presents famous intellectuals as characters but tries to actually accurately present the thought processes of five of the greatest minds of the 20th century? It's good hubris, but certainly hubris I don't have.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

On a side note, can you imagine the hubris necessary to set out to write about a book that not only presents famous intellectuals as characters but tries to actually accurately present the thought processes of five of the greatest minds of the 20th century? It's good hubris, but certainly hubris I don't have.

If it's good enough for Plato...

[Alex]

True, but with Plato there is no way to know if he did it well or accurately. This guy probably had every historian of science and philosophy prepared to jump down his throat over the slightest gaffe.