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Andrew Pessin is an American philosopher. Pessin is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D from Columbia University. He teaches at Connecticut College. 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== * ''Uncommon Sense: The Strangest Ideas From The Smartest Philosophers'' (named by Choice an "Outstanding Academic Title of 2013") Rowman & Littlefield * ''The God Question: What Famous Thinkers From Plato to Dawkins Have Said About the Divine'', Oxford, 2009 * ''The 60-Second Philosopher: Expand Your Mind on a Minute or so a Day!'' * ''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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Pessin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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