Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind (Popular...

Steiff, Josef

Sherlock Holmes and PhilosophyThe Footprints of a Gigantic Mind\nAuthor(s): Josef Steiff\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S., United States\nImprint: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780812697315, 978-0812697315\nSynopsis\nThis entertaining collection of essays deserves to exist because Sherlock Holmes sees things others don't. He sees the world in a different way, and by so doing, allows us to see that same world -- and human behavior -- in different ways as well. Oh, sure, there have been countless detectives who have followed in his footsteps and who seem to rival his abilities. Just turn on the TV or browse the local bookshop and you'll find idiosyncratic super sleuths using forensics and reasoning to solve a whole host of crimes and misdeeds. And yet no one rivals our dear, dear Holmes. Why does Sherlock reign, even more than a century later, as king? Can this mystery be solved? Unable to reach either Holmes or Watson (or Doyle for that m.