The Resource Plato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won't go away, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Plato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won't go away, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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The item Plato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won't go away, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boxford Town Library.
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- Summary
- "From the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and non-fiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science. Imagine that Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato's brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make of Google, and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher's depth and a novelist's imagination, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us--from sexuality and child-rearing to morality and the meaning of life--by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he encounters the modern world. By reviving the Platonic art of the dialogue for the 21st century, she demonstrates that the questions he first posed continue to confound and enlarge us"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 459 pages
- Contents
-
- Let the sunshine in
- Plato in the magnet
- Man walks into a seminar room
- Plato at the Googleplex
- In the shadow of the Acropolis
- Plato at the 92nd Street Y
- I don't know how to love him
- xxxPlato
- Socrates must die
- Plato on cable news
- Isbn
- 9780307378194
- Label
- Plato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won't go away
- Title
- Plato at the Googleplex
- Title remainder
- why philosophy won't go away
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and non-fiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science. Imagine that Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato's brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make of Google, and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher's depth and a novelist's imagination, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us--from sexuality and child-rearing to morality and the meaning of life--by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he encounters the modern world. By reviving the Platonic art of the dialogue for the 21st century, she demonstrates that the questions he first posed continue to confound and enlarge us"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Goldstein, Rebecca
- Dewey number
- 184
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- B395
- LC item number
- .G4435 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Plato
- Philosophy
- Imaginary conversations
- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- PHILOSOPHY / Political
- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General
- Label
- Plato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won't go away, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-444) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Let the sunshine in
- Plato in the magnet
- Man walks into a seminar room
- Plato at the Googleplex
- In the shadow of the Acropolis
- Plato at the 92nd Street Y
- I don't know how to love him
- xxxPlato
- Socrates must die
- Plato on cable news
- Control code
- 1517952
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 459 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307378194
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013029660
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1517952
- (OCoLC)849199229
- Label
- Plato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won't go away, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-444) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Let the sunshine in
- Plato in the magnet
- Man walks into a seminar room
- Plato at the Googleplex
- In the shadow of the Acropolis
- Plato at the 92nd Street Y
- I don't know how to love him
- xxxPlato
- Socrates must die
- Plato on cable news
- Control code
- 1517952
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 459 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307378194
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013029660
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1517952
- (OCoLC)849199229
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