Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Knowledge
2: Mind
3: Free Will
4: The Self
5: God
6: Reasoning
7: The World
8: What To Do
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Until recently he was Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and from 1969 to 1999 a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. His books include Spreading the Word (1984), Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (1994), Ruling Passions (1998), Truth (co-edited with Keith Simmons, 1999), and the best-selling
Think (1999). He edited the journal Mind from 1984 to 1990.

Reviews

`Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us.'
Walter Isaacson, Time Magazine

`Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us.' Walter Isaacson, Time Magazine