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Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Liveright Publishing Corporationa division of W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxii, 794 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

New York times.
Philosophy, Modern--21st century.
Newspapers--Philosophy.--Philosophy.

Other Authors:

Catapano, Peter, editor.
Critchley, Simon, 1960- editor.

Notes:

Essays selected from the New York Times' column, The Stone.

Contents:

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 ; Black, white, or other ; Freedom from the barrel of a gun ; This American life.

ISBN:

1631490710
9781631490712

LCCN:

2015033307

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)