The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics - Couverture rigide

Landsburg, Steven E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 143914821X ISBN 13 : 9781439148211

Editeur : The Free Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 Bid 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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À propos de l?auteur

Steven E. Landsburg writes the popular 'Everyday Economics' column in Slate magazine and has also written for Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He teaches in the department of economics at the University of Rochester.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Free Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 143914821X
• ISBN 13: 9781439148211
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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