The world philosophy made : from Plato to the digital age / Scott Soames.
Material type: TextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 439 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780691197418
- B59 .S63 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This book explains how philosophy transformed human knowledge and our world, and traces its essential contributions to fields as diverse as law, logic, psychology, economics, relativity and rational decision theory. From the ancient Greeks to the present, it chronicles the achievements of the great thinkers. It explores how philosophy has shaped our language, science, mathematics, religion, culture, morality, education, and politics, as well as our understanding of ourselves.
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