Horizon Information Portal

HSPLS site

eBooks/Audiobooks

Reading Program

The Stone reader : modern philosophy in 133 arguments / edited and introduced by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley.

View full image

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., c2016.

Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.

9781631490712 (hardcover) :

1631490710 (hardcover)

xxii, 794 pages ; 25 cm

Philosophy. New impressions of an old profession ; The geography of philosophy ; Rethinking thinkers ; Old problems, new spins -- Philosophy, literature and life -- Science. Can science explain everything? ; The evolution of right and wrong ; Where is my mind? ; Blinded by neuroscience? ; The social impact of science ; Can we live with uncertainty? -- Religion and morals. What is faith? ; The varieties of religious disagreement ; Morality's God problem ; Some hard moral cases -- Society. Economics and politics ; The modern family ; Black, white or other ; Freedom from the barrel of a gun ; This American life.

A collection of influential pieces originally published in the popular "New York Times" column explores subjects ranging from consciousness and morality to the gender divide and gun control, with an introduction about the column's founding and editorial process.

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal