Think
A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
$22.94
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2005
Summary
This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important.
Simon Blackburn begins by putting forward a convincing case for the study of philosophy and goes on to give the reader a sense of how the great historical figures—such as Descartes, Hume, Kant, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192854254 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192854259 |
| Author: | Simon Blackburn |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 273g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 120mm x 172mm |
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Critics Review
`Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us.‘Walter Isaacson, Time Magazine
Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Until recently he was Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and from 1969 to 1999 a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. His books include Spreading the Word (1984), Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (1994), Ruling Passions (1998), Truth (co-edited with Keith Simmons, 1999), and the best-selling Think (1999). He edited the journal Mind from 1984 to 1990.
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