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Arguably the most famous and recognized detective in history, Sherlock Holmes is considered by many to be the first pop icon of the modern age. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective has stood as a unique figure for more than a century with his reliance on logical rigor, his analytic precision, and his disregard of social mores. A true classic, the Sherlock Holmes character continues to entertain twenty-first-century audiences on the page, stage, and screen.In The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes, a team of leading scholars use the beloved character as a window into the quandaries
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monografia Rebiun36794650 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36794650 m d cr -n--------- 130527s2012||||||| o|||||||||||eng|d 1-283-58920-6 9786613901651 0-8131-3687-3 AU-PeEL eng AU-PeEL AU-PeEL eng Tallon, Philip The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes 1st ed Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 2012 Lexington Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1 online resource (215 p.) 1 online resource (215 p.) The Philosophy of Popular Culture Description based upon print version of record Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Sherlock Holmes as Epistemologist; Not the Crime, but the Man; A Case of Insincerity; Sherlock's Reasoning Toolbox; Watsons, Adlers, Lestrades, and Moriarties; Eliminating the Impossible; Was It Morally Wrong to Kill Off Sherlock Holmes?; Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes and the Ethics of Hyperspecialization; Passionate Objectivity in Sherlock Holmes; The Industrious Sherlock Holmes; The Dog That Did Not Bark; Aristotle on Detective Fiction; The Grim Reaper on Baker Street; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index Arguably the most famous and recognized detective in history, Sherlock Holmes is considered by many to be the first pop icon of the modern age. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective has stood as a unique figure for more than a century with his reliance on logical rigor, his analytic precision, and his disregard of social mores. A true classic, the Sherlock Holmes character continues to entertain twenty-first-century audiences on the page, stage, and screen.In The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes, a team of leading scholars use the beloved character as a window into the quandaries English Baggett, David 0-8131-3671-7 The Philosophy of Popular Culture