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Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
Free Press
November 2009
On Sale: November 3, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 143914821X
EAN: 9781439148211
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In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair
Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex, Slate columnist and
Economics professor Steven Landsburg uses concepts from
mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big
questions in philosophy: What is real? What can we know?
What is the difference between right and wrong? And how
should we live? Landsburg begins with the broadest possible
categories from a mathematical analysis of the arguments for
the existence of God; to the real meaning of the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle and the Godel Incompleteness Theorem;
to the moral choices we face in the marketplace and the
voting booth. Stimulating, illuminating, 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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