What Do We Really Know: The Big Questions in Philosophy
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
What Do We Really Know: The Big Questions in Philosophy
By (Author) Simon Blackburn
Quercus Publishing
Quercus Publishing
1st January 2013
27th September 2012
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
100
Physical Properties
Paperback
272
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
197g
Description
In What Do We Really Know Simon Blackburn addresses the twenty most-asked philosophical questions, including 'Can machines think', 'What is the meaning of life', 'Is death to be feared', 'Why be good', 'What am I' and 'What do we really know'
Each 3000-word essay examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers from history's great thinkers.Author Bio
Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today. He is the author of the bestselling books The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Think, Being Good, Lust, Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed and How to Read Hume. He lives in Cambridge.
