Wisdom Information and Wonder (Midgeley - pbk)

Author: Mary Midgeley

ISBN: 9780415028301

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

In this book one of Britain's leading popular philosophers tackles a question that is at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in the high-tech world, and criticizes conceptions of philosophy that support this mode of thinking.