{"id":1869,"date":"2009-07-09T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T22:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2009-07-09T22:48:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T22:48:15","slug":"andy-pessin-and-the-god-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1869","title":{"rendered":"Andy Pessin and The God Question."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Question-Famous-Thinkers-Dawkins\/dp\/1851686592\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/images\/godquestion.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Pessin's The God Question\" border=\"0\" width=\"160\" height=\"241\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Andy Pessin, my mentor as an undergrad philosophy student back at Kenyon (English\/Philosophy double major, with concentrations in creative writing and what was essentially multimedia design) has two new books out!  The first, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/60-Second-Philosopher-Expand-Your-Minute\/dp\/1851686886\/\"><i>The 60-Second Philosopher: Expand Your Mind on a Minute or So a Day,<\/i><\/a> is basically a collection of short thought exercises designed to get you thinking like a philosopher &#8211; which should prepare you nicely for the second book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Question-Famous-Thinkers-Dawkins\/dp\/1851686592\/\"><i>The God Question: What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins Have Said About the Divine,<\/i><\/a> which tackles one of the greatest enigmas of human history.  No small project, this.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s Andy&#8217;s quasi-official description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>THE GOD QUESTION: WHAT FAMOUS THINKERS FROM PLATO TO DAWKINS HAVE SAID ABOUT THE DIVINE<\/strong><br \/>\nby Andrew Pessin  (Oxford, UK:  Oneworld Publications, 2009)<br \/>\nA philosophical book aimed at the general reader, <i>The God Question<\/i> explores the most interesting, important, and sometimes strange things that great thinkers &#150; theists, atheists, agnostics, heretics, rastafarians, pastafarians, you name it &#150; have said about God.  Filled with puzzles and conundrums (or is that conundra?), insight, wit, and wisdom (so says the promotional copy, must be true), it has something for everyone: the believer, the disbeliever, and those on the fence with respect to The Question.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got both books ordered from Amazon and I recommend you do the same &#8211; Andy was one of my favorite professors at Kenyon and was always blessed with the gift of conveying incredibly complex ideas in really interesting, accessible ways.  I can&#8217;t wait to see what he has to say about God.  For more about Andy and his books, check out his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.god-question.com\">www.god-question.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Pessin, my mentor as an undergrad philosophy student back at Kenyon (English\/Philosophy double major, with concentrations in creative writing and what was essentially multimedia design) has two new books out! The first, The 60-Second Philosopher: Expand Your Mind on a Minute or So a Day, is basically a collection of short thought exercises designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-u9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}