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The World Philosophy Made : From Plato to the Digital Age /

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and reconceptualizing fundamental questions, philosophy has progressed-and driven human progress-for more than two mi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Soames, Scott (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The dawn of western philosophy
  • A truce between faith and reason
  • The beginnings of modern science
  • Free societies, free markets, and free people
  • Modern logic and the foundations of mathematics
  • Logic, computation, and the birth of the digital age
  • The science of language
  • The science of rational choice
  • Mind, body, and cognitive science
  • Philosophy and physics
  • Liberty, justice, and the good society
  • Laws, constitutions, and the state
  • The objectivity of morality
  • Virtue, happiness, and meaning in the face of death
  • The noble deaths of socrates and david hume
  • Bios of leading figures.