Mensen zien zichzelf graag als morele wezens, maar klopt dat zelfbeeld eigenlijk wel? De wetenschap leert ons dat we genetisch geprogrammeerd zijn tot egoïstisch gedrag en volgens scepticisme, relativisme en nihilisme berust uiteindelijk geen enkel moreel oordeel op goede gronden.  Meer

Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive.  Meer

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them.  Meer

This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them.  Meer

An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning. Like most of the main questions in epistemology, the classical problem of induction arises from doubts about a mode of inference used to justify some of our most familiar and pervasive beliefs.  Meer

A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects.  Meer

One of the world's leading thinkers on truth explains what it is, the different ways of approaching and understanding it, and why it matters.  Meer

Simon Blackburn tackles the key questions in philosophy.  Meer