Big Questions

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Big Questions

Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics

Business and Management

Author: Steven E. Landsburg

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Language: English

Published by: Simon & Schuster UK

Published on: 2nd September 2010

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 459 Kb

ISBN: 9781847399298


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In the wake of his enormously popular books, The Armchair Economist and More Sex is Safer Sex, Steven Landsburg uses concepts from maths, economics and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: Where does knowledge come from? What''s the difference between right and wrong? Do our beliefs matter? Is it possible to know everything?

Provocative, utterly entertaining and always surprising, The Big Questions challenges readers to re-evaluate their most fundamental beliefs and reveals the relationship between the loftiest philosophical quests and our everyday lives.

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