World philosophy made : from Plato to the digital age
- 2019 Princeton University Press, New Jersey :
- xiii, 439 p. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and reconceptualizing fundamental questions, philosophy has progressed-and driven human progress-for more than two millennia. In short, we live in a world philosophy made. In this concise history of philosophy's world-shaping impact, Scott Soames demonstrates that the modern world-including its science, technology, and politics-simply would not be possible without the accomplishments of philosophy.
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Assertoric content Cognitive acts Decision theory Economics Functionalism David Hume Incompleteness theorems Linguistics Morality Special relativity Constitution Virtue