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What Philosophy Can Do

✍ Scribed by Gutting, Gary

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2016;2015
Tongue
English
Series
Norton paperback
Edition
Norton paperback
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

How to argue about politics -- Science : a consumer's guide -- Philosophy and the limits of science -- The new atheists -- Religious agnosticism -- Happiness, work, and capitalism -- Education in a capitalist society -- Thinking about art -- Can we stop fighting about abortion? -- What philosophy can do.

✦ Table of Contents

How to argue about politics --
Science : a consumer's guide --
Philosophy and the limits of science --
The new atheists --
Religious agnosticism --
Happiness, work, and capitalism --
Education in a capitalist society --
Thinking about art --
Can we stop fighting about abortion? --
What philosophy can do.

✦ Subjects

Philosophy

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