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Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away (Record no. 1246)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781782395577
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 180
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger
9 (RLIN) 362516
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Atlantic Books;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 02 Oct 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 480 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be morality without religion? What would Plato make of Google, and of the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? Plato at the Googleplex is acclaimed thinker Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's dazzling investigation of these conundra. With a philosopher's depth and erudition and a novelist's imagination and wit, Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he takes on the modern world; it is a stunningly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics and science.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular philosophy
9 (RLIN) 362517
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Religion and Philosophy 02/07/2016 1 180 PKLC006686 24/10/2020 02/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17   2 17/12/2016
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Religion and Philosophy 09/05/2016   180 PKLC001313 09/05/2016 09/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Sold