From the bestselling philosopher, an ambitious and gripping history of science, thought, life on earth and the human mind itself - and what we might know in the future
Professor A C Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects, and has written on non-Western philosophy. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects -- Steven
Pinker
Remarkable, readable and authoritative. How he has mastered so
much, so thoroughly, is nothing short of amazing -- Lawrence M.
Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing
This book hums with the excitement of the great human project of
discovery -- Adam Zeman, author of Aphantasia
Prof. Grayling interweaves the recent scientific and archaeological
advances into a compelling narrative of how much progress humans
have made in the understanding of their place in the natural,
social and cognitive worlds. And how ignorant we still remain
providing strong motivation to further this understanding by new
empirical evidence -- Tejidner Virdee FRS
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