Volume 30, Number 19 · December 8, 1983
Gardner's Game with God
By George Groth
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
by Martin Gardner
Morrow, 450 pp., $22.50; $12.95 (paper)
This is one of the strangest books of philosophical game playing to come along in many a moon. The author seems well acquainted with modern philosophy—indeed, he studied under Rudolf Carnap and even edited one of Carnap's books—yet he defends a point of view so anachronistic, so out of step with current fashion, that were it not for a plethora of contemporary quotations and citations, his book could almost have been written at the time of Kant, a thinker the author apparently admires.
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