Philosophy : the latest answers to the oldest questions

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Title:

Philosophy : the latest answers to the oldest questions

Author:

Fearn, Nicholas.

ISBN:

9781843540687

9781843540663

Personal Author:

Fearn, Nicholas.

Publication Information:

London : Atlantic Books, 2005.

Physical Description:

xix, 225 p. ; 20cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Part 1. Who am I? -- Chapter 1. The problem of the self -- Ch. 2. Free will and fate -- Ch. 3. Minds and machines -- Ch. 4. Bodies and souls -- Pt 2. What do I know? -- Ch. 5. The problem of knowledge -- Ch. 6. The problem of meaning -- Ch. 7. Innate ideas -- Ch. 8. The language of thought -- Ch. 9. Postmodernism and pragmatism -- Ch. 10. The limits of understanding.

Pt 3. What should I do? -- Ch. 11. Moral luck -- Ch. 12. he expanding circle -- Ch. 13. The meaning of life and death.

Subject Term:

Philosophy.

Philosophers.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0614/2005363063.html

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Summary

The work of the great philosophers of the past is well known. From Aristotle and Plato to Kant and Wittgenstein, the answers to life's biggest questions have been discussed and debated endlessly. But, as philosophy itself teaches, there is never a final solution to a philosophical problem. In the search for higher meaning, Nicholas Fearn has traveled the globe to interview the world's most distinguished thinkers, from Derek Parfit, David Wiggins, and Bernard Williams, to Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, and Bernard-Henri Lévi. Philosophy is a brilliant and compelling guide to the latest answers to the oldest questions, bringing to light what today's philosophers think about what it is to be human.