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Andrew Pessin is an American philosopher.

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Biography

Pessin is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D from Columbia University. He teaches at Connecticut College. In addition to his academic work he has published a number of philosophy books for the general reader, as well as two novels. His most recent novel, The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes, is an historical murder mystery based on real events: the life of the famous 17th-century philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.

According to Paul Cliteur, writing in Philosophy Now, Pessin's The God Question discusses "discussions about the existence of God," as quite often being, "discussions about the compatibility of the characteristics ascribed to the divine in the theistic tradition. Those who held that those characteristics are compatible were called 'theists': those who did not, 'atheists.'"

Pessin appeared in several episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman in the early 1990's in a sketch called The Strong Guy, The Fat Guy, The Genius. He played The Genius.

Books

  • The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes, a novel, Open Books, 2017
  • The Study of Philosophy: A Text With Readings (7th Edn), Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
  • Uncommon Sense: The Strangest Ideas From The Smartest Philosophers (named by Choice an "Outstanding Academic Title of 2013") Rowman & Littlefield
  • The Second Daughter, a novel under the pen name J. Jeffrey, Winter Goose Press 2014
  • The Philosophy of Mind, audio course and book, The Modern Scholar, 2010
  • The God Question: What Famous Thinkers From Plato to Dawkins Have Said About the Divine, Oneworld, 2009
  • The 60-Second Philosopher: Expand Your Mind on a Minute or so a Day!, Oneworld, 2009
  • Gray Matters: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, M.E. Sharpe, 1997
  • The Twin Earth Chronicles: Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's "The Meaning of Meaning", with Sanford Goldberg, (edited collection) M. E. Sharpe, 1996.

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