TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidson,Matthew
TI  - Knowledge and reality in nine questions: a first book in philosophy 
SN  - 9781350161467
AV  - BD331 
U1  - 110 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London, England
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - First philosophy
KW  - Reality
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Ancient philosophy
KW  - Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- 1. A Bit About Philosophy: What Are Thought Experiments? 2. What Am I? 3. Can Technology Make us Immortal? 4. Skepticism, or What If I Can't Tell if I'm in the Matrix? 5. What Is It to Act with Free Will? 6. Can We Know God? 7. What is Time? 8. What is Truth? 9. Are Objects of Perception All in our Mind? 10. Do Fictional Characters Really Exist? Bibliography Index -- Glossary Annotated Bibliography Index; Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers; Also published in print
N2  - "For the Ancient Greek thinkers Plato and Aristotle, questions about philosophy concerned the fundamental nature of reality. This introduction is based on their views, boiling philosophy down to nine essential questions and using them to reveal how we think about the major topics of metaphysics and epistemology. It is a fast-paced tour of the Western philosophical tradition, walking you through age-old questions about God, free will, skepticism, truth and perception and introducing you to distinctive features and methods. By unpacking and exploring each of the nine questions in turn, you find out what it really means to do philosophy"--
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350161467?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -