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The big questions : tackling the problems of philosophy with ideas from mathematics, economics, and physics / Steven E. Landsburg.

by Landsburg, Steven E., 1954-

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Free Press, 2009.

9781439148211 (hardcover)

143914821X (hardcover)

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

xviii, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beginning of the journey: how this book came to be, and what it's about -- On what there is -- Unfinished business: going bananas -- How Richard Dawkins got it wrong: the case against God -- Daydream believers -- Unfinished business -- What do believers believe? -- On what there obviously is -- Diogenes's nightmare -- 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 -- 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 -- How to think -- What to study: advice to college students.

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