The atheist's guide to reality : enjoying life without illusions /
We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them--all of them. His upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description of reality and accepts a...
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Answering life's persistent questions : do you want stories or reality?
- The nature of reality : the physical facts fix all the facts
- How physics fakes design
- IKEA didn't make natural history : good design is rare, expensive, and accidental
- Morality : the bad news
- The good news : nice nihilism
- Never let your conscious be your guide
- The brain does everything without thinking about anything at all
- Farewell to the purpose-driven life
- You've got to stop taking yourself so seriously
- History debunked
- Living with scientism : ethics, politics, the humanities, and Prozac as needed.