{"product_id":"9781439153598","title":"The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics","description":"\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of his enormously popular books \u003ci\u003eThe Armchair Economist \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMore Sex Is Safer Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003eS\u003cb\u003eteven \u003c\/b\u003eL\u003cb\u003eandsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? What is the difference between right and wrong? \u003c\/b\u003eA\u003cb\u003end how should we live?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWidely renowned for his lively explorations of economics, in his fourth book Landsburg branches out into mathematics and physics as well—disciplines that, like economics, the author loves for their beauty, their logical clarity, and their profound and indisputable truth—to take us on a provocative and utterly entertaining journey through the questions that have preoccupied philosophers through the ages. The author begins with the broadest possible categories—Reality and Unreality; Knowledge and Belief; Right and Wrong—and then focuses his exploration on specific concerns: from a mathematical analysis of the arguments for the existence of God; to the real meaning of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Godel Incompleteness Theorem; to the moral choices we face in the marketplace and the voting booth. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStimulating, illuminating, and always surprising, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Questions \u003c\/i\u003echallenges readers to re-evaluate their most fundamental beliefs and reveals the relationship between the loftiest philosophical quests and our everyday lives.","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127882891504,"sku":"9781439153598","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439153598_p0.jpg?v=1763756364","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439153598","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}