50 Philosophy Ideas (You Really Need to Know) - Hardcover

Ben Dupre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847240062 ISBN 13: 9781847240064

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc, 2007

Synopsis

Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper.

In a series of accessible and engagingly written essays, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.

About this title

Book Description:

All you need to know about the central ideas of philosophy

About the Author:

Ben Dupre read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He was Children's Reference Publisher at Oxford University Press from 1992 until 2004 and, all told, has more than 20 years' experience of bringing complex and challenging concepts to the widest possible audience.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847240062
• ISBN 13: 9781847240064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208