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Big Questions Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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ISBN-10: 1439148228

ISBN-13: 9781439148228

Edition: N/A

Authors: Steven E. Landsburg

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 10/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester.nbsp; He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy.nbsp;His current research is in the area of quantum game theory.nbsp;He blogs daily at www.TheBigQuestions.com . For over ten years, he wrote the monthly "Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine, and has written regularly for Forbes and occasionally for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He appeared as a commentator on…    

Introduction: The Beginning of the Journey
Reality and Unreality
On What There Is
Unfinished Business: Going Bananas
How Richard Dawkins Got It Wrong: The Case Against God
Beliefs
Daydream Believers
Unfinished Business
What Do Believers Believe?
On What There Obviously Is
Diogenes' Nightmare
Knowledge
Knowing Your Math
Unfinished Business: Hercules and the Hydra
Incomplete Thinking
The Rules of Logic and the Tale of the Potbellied Pig
The Rules of Evidence
The Limits to Knowledge
Unfinished Business: Quantum Entanglement
Right and Wrong
Telling Right from Wrong
The Economist's Golden Rule
How to Be Socially Responsible: A User's Guide to the Economist's Golden Rule
On Not Being a Jerk
The Economist on the Playground
Unfinished Business: Let the Rabbi Split the Pie
The Life of the Mind
How to Think
What to Study: Some Advice to College Students
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index