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Atheist's Guide to Reality Enjoying Life Without Illusions

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ISBN-10: 0393080234

ISBN-13: 9780393080230

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alex Rosenberg

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We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description of reality and accepts all its consequences. He shows how physics makes Darwinian natural selection the only way life can emerge, and how that deprives nature of purpose, and human action of meaning, while it exposes conscious illusions such as free will and the self. The science that makes us nonbelievers provides the insight into the real difference between right and wrong, the nature of…    
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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/3/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.60" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Biology at Duke University. He has published 11 books on the philosophy of science including The Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction (2007) with Daniel McShea. In 1993, he won the Lakatos Prize in the Philosophy of Science and in 2007 was the National Phi Beta Kappa Rommell lecturer in philosophy.Robert Arp is Research Associate with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology at the University of Buffalo and works with the Ontology Research Group at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences in Buffalo, New York. A PhD…    

Preface
Answering Life's Persistent Questions: Do You Want Stories Or Reality?
The Nature Of Reality: The Physical Facts Fix All the Facts
How Physics Fakes Design
Ikea Didn't Make Natural History: Good Design Is Rare, Expensive, and Accidental
Morality: The Bad News
The Good News: Nice Nihilism
Never Let Your Conscious Be Your Guide
The Brain Does Everything Without Thinking About Anything At All
Farewell To The Purpose-Driven Life
You've Got To Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously
History Debunked
Living With Scientism: Ethics, Politics, The Humanities, And Prozac As Neede
The Atheist's Guide To Reality: The Backstory
Index